Word: pads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes around unsuccessfully hunting a second wife. All the time his capable, attractive housekeeper (Billie Worth) silently yearns for him, though-except for the fact that he is Joe E. Brown -there's no telling why. The tale has little substance and less suspense, and has to pad out its skimpy plot with a lot of courting among the younger...
...table where she sat. The talks began, voices carried through the slatted doors. Vernice Anderson told newsmen that she just "automatically" started writing. "It was under no one's instruction," she added. "I hadn't even gone there with a regular notebook. I happened to have a pad of lined paper and I just began notes. It seemed the thing...
...nuns in the convent of the Little Company of Mary in Rome pad very softly past a certain room these days. Inside that airy corner room, filled with the neat disarray of an old bachelor's belongings, a fragile, black-eyed old man with one of the most far-ranging minds of the 20th Century is recovering from an annoying bout with the flu. In his 88th year, Philosopher George Santayana takes his ailments philosophically. His many would-be visitors feel them more keenly. Formerly host to every sensitive traveler with a metaphysical bee in his Baedeker, Santayana...
Along with simple explanations, Truman prescribes simple drawings. A swollen, inflamed appendix is easy to sketch on a prescription pad, and so is the operation of cutting it off. "Perhaps," says Truman (no Vesalius), "the less artistic you are the better you can illustrate for the patient...
...letter to the Detroit Free Press was signed by an indignant resident of nearby Litchfield. He wanted the paper to know that something peculiar was going on in his town. The school superintendent, he said, was ordering teachers to pad their class records with the names of pupils they had never seen. The writer thought the paper ought to investigate...