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...UNNAMABLE, by Samuel Beckett (179 pp.; Grove; clothbound, $3.50; paperback, $1.45), carries the blob hero to his logical conclusion: "complete disintegration." Mahood, the hero-victim of The Unnamable, who early in the book dubs himself Worm, never leaves a large jar. It stands on a pedestal in a street presumably in Paris, just outside a chophouse. He is without arms and legs, and a collar fastened to the lip of the jar fits under his jaw so that he cannot move his head. The restaurant owner's wife changes the sawdust in the jar now and then, feeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beware the Blob | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Example. In Hatfield Peverel, England, the Rev. Brian Mahood judged a women's ankle-beauty contest, then took off his socks and won the prize for the shapeliest male ankles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 13, 1948 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

HARVARD. VIRGINIA. Lincoln, 3b. s.s., Burnett Emmons, 2b. 3h., D. Kuyk Conlon, s.s. r.f., Moran Perkins, c.f. l.f., Pettaway Frothingham, l.f. c., G. Kuyk Bigelow, 1b. c.f., Mahood Hallock, r.f. 2b., Dunn Gammack, c. 1b., Baughman Goode, Hardell, p. p., Harrison, Taylor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BALL TEAM IN SECOND CLASH WITH VIRGINIA | 5/8/1920 | See Source »

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