Word: oed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paunchy Producer David O. Selzniclc, 47, who generally stays behind the cameras, was caught in front of one as he arrived beaming in London with his principal cinematic property and bride of a week, Jennifer Jones...
...which took five years to prepare and cost $287,000, sanction three pronunciations of gynecology: with the first syllable as "jin" (favored in Philadelphia), or as "guy" (commonest in New York), or as "jy" (scattered). The volume also recognizes the fact that a Bostonian has his bellyache in his o&-domen, while most other Americans get theirs an accent lower-in the abdomen...
...such profound cold the molecules will be almost deathly still. Zero itself'will not have been reached. Ityis a will-o'-the-wisp game that physicists play: zero can be pursued and approached, but never actually captured...
...first Tarzan (1918) was strong, silent Elmo Lincoln. Best-known was Olympic Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, who eventually grew too fat, after appearing in twelve of the 25 pictures (in his six most memorable ones, Maureen O'Sullivan played Jane). Three other Olympic athletes have also been Tarzans: Herman Brix, Buster Crabbe and Glenn Morris...
...O SHEPHERD, SPEAK! (629 pp.)-Upton Sinclair-Viking...