Word: necked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alec Gushing. Why waste time catering to cash customers when the State of California is willing to dole out $4,000,000, and then Uncle Sam, not to be outdone, forks over an equal amount. Gushing gets my vote for snob-con man of the year. HERB AMMERMULLER Great Neck...
Lahore Horse Show, a Pakistani photographer climbed a pole to get a better shot of the duke, lost his grip and fell over backward. Said Prince Philip, quite audibly: "I hope to God he breaks his neck...
...recession, Bolivia would be going through the happiest period of its history." Then he looks around at his office's portraits of two recent Presidents, one a despairing suicide and one hanged by a mob, and adds morosely: "The man sitting here always feels the rope around his neck...
...Hancock again. He has laid unholy hands on it, which was a good idea, since it has one of those comic opera plots which are usually best left to Mozart or Rossini or the Comedie Francaise or oblivion. Mr. Hancock has moved it--by the scruff of the neck--to southern California, and changed the characters to modern types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy in the halcyon days of Superman D.C. publications; his friend becomes...
...Talk. A longtime foe of esthetes, Benton insists that "dough is the only thing that really inspires an artist-I guess because artists never have much of it." Clad in loafers, blue jeans and an open-neck flannel shirt, he labors a strenuous eight-hour day seven days a week, allows only his black-and-silver German shepherd in his studio because "he never criticizes what I am doing." All the other distractions, including pipes, of which he has more than 100 models, are taboo during work hours. Instead, he chews tobacco...