Word: putted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workman in the stained glass factory of famed Charles J. Connick; then on a Harvard fellowship in Italy, where he lived with a peasant family in Anticoli and the goat's milk stuck to his teeth; then employed by Muralists Victor White and Barry Faulkner to put vague decorations on expensive Manhattan walls, Maurice Grosser adjusted himself to his talents. The adjustment was fairly complete by 1929, when in an effort (successful) to stop smoking he went on a five-day binge and got. fired. He started painting for himself...
Barney Connett's homemade, one-man pigboat is twelve feet long, weighs 1,000 pounds, was put together with automobile parts and miscellaneous junk at a cost of $4,000, is powered by a battery-driven electric motor. Last autumn, lying on his belly in his submerged sub, Barney Connett bored his way from Michigan City to Chicago (63 miles) in 10 hrs. 30 min. Last week he was testing a two-way radio with two stations on shore. His motor brushes burned out, his craft stalled. "Send out a boat!" radioed Submariner Connett. "Send out a boat before...
...Sunday afternoon, while Their Majesties were resting at Hyde Park, NBC rallied a thin red line of Hollywood's British players, put on a full hour of British-accented heigh-ho. Cissie Loftus sang My Old Dutch, Vivien Leigh and Basil Rathbone recited from the Brownings; and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce and C. Aubrey Smith O. B. E. sang Three Little Fishies (see p. 47). Having thus offered Their Majesties some idea of the state of the Empire in Hollywood, the gathering, 44 strong, responded to a champagne toast proposed by U. S.-born Play Actor George...
...date Dr. Strock has tried his vitallium pegs out on eleven patients. How long the teeth will stay put, cautious Dr. Strock would not say, but he remarked that one patient has been using his tooth for a year and a half...
...faced Norman Hume Anthony got fired as editor of Judge nine years ago and spent several months biting his nails in Frank & Jack's speakeasy on Manhattan's West 45th Street before Publisher George T. Delacorte hired him to put out a bathroom burlesque of bathroom advertising called Ballyhoo. In four issues circulation went up to 1,000,000. Long after later issues and lesser imitators had made the idea as stale as a used towel, Messrs, Delacorte & Anthony continued to put out Ballyhoo. It shrank to digest size, became a quarterly. Finally, two months ago, it folded...