Word: pea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bugsy heists a Liberty ship from the mothball fleet in the Hudson River and sails it to Boston-that tiny brain figures as how the Liberty ship will come in handy for the getaway, but it forgets to figure as how nobody in the gang can operate the overgrown pea...
...ranging from a grand piano to a castanet, which gives the Wurlitzer its one-man-band versatility. These organ chambers must be duplicated in a home installation, and even the smallest organ needs more space than a kitchen for its hundreds of pipes, which vary in size from a pea shooter to a howitzer...
...their own. "Remember, darling." says Mother, "for the rest of your life you must act as if your baby were mine. For the rest of your life you have to think: This isn't my son, it's my little brother." The heroine buys that pea-brained proposition and its chuckleheaded corollary: she can never wed because she could never leave her brother. For this problem the script provides a solution that has at least the merit of originality. The baby catches fire-no kidding, the dear little fellow really catches fire and blazes away on the screen...
Past the Grave. Firbank was as queer a bird as ever fluttered. Pathological shyness contorted his thin frame. It constricted his throat so that he could hardly eat in company; at a dinner given for him, he managed to down one green pea. At his club, he once took fright at the sight of the headwaiter and hid under the table. He had, of course, an independent income (poor people with Firbank's temperament simply die or are shut away). He came from solid stock: his grandfather worked his way up from the coal mines to become a contractor...
...seat and has ambitions for Fulbright's. Governor Orval Faubus, finishing a record fourth term as Governor, might be tempted by the larger scope of Washington. Both Alford and Faubus would campaign against Fulbright by calling him a one-worlder who has traveled altogether too far from the pea patch. Already, Fulbright is known caustically as "the Senator from Timbuctoo...