Word: pipestem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boosted his take to $5,000 a week and given him a taste of the good posh life he never knew back in London's Bermondsey slums. At 21, Tommy is Britain's first homegrown rock 'n' roller. He appears before his public with his pipestem legs encased in garish blue pants, with embroidered silver guitars running down the seams. Tommy goes through all the required hip swivelings and head bobbings as he emits his spasmodic love calls...
...Last week Funnyman Paar, whom critics have long accused of living in winter off the nut he stores up in summer, was awash in the unrehearsed confusion of a sprawling, winter-weight marathon ballyhooed by NBC as the "new" Tonight. Contorting his rubber-band lips around his familiar pipestem and some spottily diverting japes, neat, dumpling-cheeked Jack Paar, 39, glibly scared up a little offbeat fun and flapdoodle-something that the gossipists who succeeded Kovacs and Steve Allen were notably unable to do. Despite first-week jitters, technical flaps, occasional lapses into tedium, and a mummer's parade...
...sister and brother were Mary and Charles Lamb. Charles was a 21-year-old clerk in the offices of the East India Company-a fragile, stammering youth with a large head on a thin little body, pipestem legs, and a strained look about his eyes. As a result of a nervous breakdown he himself had spent six weeks "very agreeably in a mad house at Hoxton." But confronted with the hard-and-fast alternatives of taking care of Mary or committing her to an institution, Charles never hesitated. Until death parted them, brother and sister lived together like...
...whether hypertension causes arteriosclerosis, or vice versa, no one knows. A similar change in major arteries is often seen in the aged: the muscular wall hardens so much that the vessels are called "pipestem arteries." In an otherwise healthy individual this condition may go undetected and do no apparent harm...
...whole world was at war, but there in the headlines was The Voice, The Verce, The Larynx, The Tonsil, The Bony Baritone, The Sultan of Swoon-"none other" (as Jimmy Durante expressed it) "than Moonlight Sinatra." Radio comics gnawed ecstatically on the famous skinnybones. "The pipestem Caruso." "He has to pass a place twice before he casts a shadow." "I know the food here is lousy," cracked Phil Silvers as Frank walked onstage in their Army show, "but this is ridiculous...