Word: mushroomer
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...both the question and the answer in British Playwright Henry Livings' parable of an upsidedown, inside-out non-hero of a boiler-room custodian in search of hallucinogenic mushroom caps...
...both the question and the answer in British Playwright Henry Livings' parable of an upsidedown, inside-out non-hero of a boiler-room custodian in search of hallucinogenic mushroom caps...
...turns into a wonderfully wacky game of you-stab-my-back-and-ril-stab-yours. Uncle strikes first. One dark night he hypnotizes the boy-Barnaby shakes the spell on the brink of a 100-ft. precipice. Barnaby strikes back with some toxic toadstools-Uncle precautiously checks the mushroom sauce. Uncle surrounds Barnaby and Chrissie with a wall of fire-rain puts the fire out. Barnaby plops a tarantula on Uncle's chest-the spider falls happily asleep on Uncle's neck. The spider, as a matter of fact, is the only performer who manages to steal...
...routine physical examination. Then the otolaryngologists (ear-nose-throat specialists), headed by Dr. Wilbur J. Gould of Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, reconnoitered the presidential larynx, the territory in which they would be operating at dawn. The polyp, about the shape and consistency of a tiny button mushroom, was growing from the right vocal cord. Surgeon George A. Hallenbeck of the Mayo Clinic and Dr. David P. Osborne, a Navy surgeon, examined the presidential abdomen, where a lump the size of a golf ball protruded near the scar left by his gallbladder operation. Then the two groups of surgeons...
...zoomed to Tahiti for a get-away-from-everything idyl-only to find half the French press corps camped in Papeete for the latest French A-bomb tests. So now the honeymooners chartered a yacht and sailed away among the islands, feasting on roast pig and gazing at the mushroom clouds...