Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once-isolationist newspapers demanded preparedness on a scale unthinkable two months ago. The Chicago Tribune denounced Army & Navy bureaucrats, called the Navy obsolete, insisted on a mammoth air force...
...grisly Rock People are scarcely less gluttonous. In one spirited set-to over supper, Tumak, the picture's Tarzan-like hero (Victor Mature), is heaved off a cliff by Angry Volcano, his father (Lon Chancy Jr.). Five minutes later he is heaved off another cliff by a mammoth. Amid assorted saurians Tumak floats safely down to the country of the Shell People, who are soft-living sybarites about 1,001,940 years ahead of their time. Even a cave man can see that Shining Star, their blonde leading lady (Carole Landis), is a Hollywood babe in a deerskin playsuit...
...anniversary with a 318-page centennial issue. In an unwonted display of high animal spirits, the staff set off 100 small bombs as a five-pound birthday edition rolled off the presses. A man in a top hat, driving a one-horse shay, went out to distribute copies. The mammoth issue sold for 3?, went to some 300,000 readers: double the normal circulation (153,240) of the Times-Star...
Leacock said that the island he was on is inhabited only by a few Scandinavians and a Dutch dancer. It is completely isolated from civilization, except for the one or two yachts which put in each year. The only animals present are wild boars, huge tortoises, and a few mammoth lizards...
Before the uphill pull to Virginia City (pop.: 500) time was found for a mammoth parade headed by Errol Flynn in fancy pants and six shooters, and Mrs. John Hay ("Liz") Whitney bestriding her $20,000 silver-embossed saddle. Also in the riding was pretentious Manhattan Saloonkeeper Jack Kriendler, but his saddle cost only $5,000. Leo Carrillo rode his horse through the bar and lobby of the Riverside Hotel. Others rode everything from cayuses to Cadillacs, but kept between the packed lines of shouting, hooting, yippeeing sidewalk fans...