Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davidson was getting ready to study medicine at Yale when one day he picked up a lump of clay and "knew right off" he wanted to be a sculptor."But when I switched over to art," he says, "the world lost a promising surgeon. I mean someone useful as well as ornamental." Now a squat 64, his round brown eyes stare frankly at the world from above a salt-&-pepper beard which is bushy enough for a Lower Slobbovian. "I shaved it off in 1917," he remembers, "and Great God! For three weeks until I could grow it back...
Hungry Hill (Rank; Prestige), at its clearest, appears to be a plea for the abolition of the 19th Century. Everything else about this British cinemadaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel is equally impossible. It begins in Ireland atop a large rocky lump of earth (see title) which a greedy capitalist named Brodrick is determined to excavate. A member of the lower classes prophesies that "woe" and "the end of everything green and beautiful" will betide if the hill is mined for copper. For three generations (roughly 90 minutes), flunkeys announce woe more often than dinner ("There...
...Export-Import Bank authorized France to use $93 million (and Italy $32 million) in untapped reconstruction credits for emergency purchases of fuel. The Army bought $50 million worth of French francs to pay off the first installment on wartime debts for rent, transportation and food. The biggest lump sum was a preliminary divvy of $360 million in gold looted by the Germans: $104 million to France, $29.4 million to Austria, $4 million to Italy, $40 million to The Netherlands...
...parting was sweet sorrow, for to each man the paymaster handed severance money that averaged 10,000 bolivianos ($250). At the prevailing 50? a day, that was almost a year and a half's pay, a lump sum greater than most Indians had ever seen. There would be drinking and feasting in the company's bars before they went back to work...
Perry Como joined the pelted crooners of history. Rudy Vallee had been struck by a grapefruit (1931); Frank Sinatra by an egg (1944); Crooner Como, deep in Dream, Dream,Dream at a Chicago theater, was awakened last week by a hunk of hard candy. His injury: a lump on the noggin...