Word: noggins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earth" could not be a more appropriate title. Inspector Dick Powell starts off in hot pursuit of a narcotics ring, gets shot at and clubbed on the head at every turn, and winds up victorious a week later with a feather in his hat and a lamp on his noggin, having completely encircled the globe. In Shanghai, Powell crosses paths with Signe Hasso, in company with a young Chinese girl who later turns out to be older than she looks and ringleader of the entire dope chain. After a quick hop to Egypt and a climb up a precipitous...
...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...
...different today if Hornblower had not suddenly debarked at the port of Riga and, waving his zoo-guinea gold-hilted sword, led a "flank attack [that] thwarted Bonaparte's schemes to conquer the world." "To Commodore Sir Horatio Hornblower and the British Navy!" cried the Tsar, raising a noggin of Admiralty rum. "To the Navy," responded Hornblower, "guardian of the liberties of the world...
...Nineteen-year-old Frederick Cecil Bartholomew's noggin, once famed for its curls in his days as a child cinemactor, has been "G.I." for three months. In Amarillo, Tex., British-born Bartholomew got the U.S. citizenship his army time entitled him to seek. Asked by girl reporters if he had made any other pledges, the First Class Private answered: "No. I'm safe for a while...
...guesses as to what was behind Jerry Land's tactless talk, best guess was that he was plain tired of being needled. Like a bear with bees buzzing around its noggin, he had struck out wildly. His cronies were agreed that he was not thinking of N.M.U. or any other union; he was just plain mad-at newspaper talk about shipyard loafing, at union squabbles between Joe Curran's N.M.U. and the Seafarers' International Union...