Word: quilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once almost choked when one stuck in his throat after a collision with Milwaukee's Hank Aaron. "I'm strictly a flat-toothpick man," says Jones. "Those round ones get stuck between the bicuspids and molars. And I don't go much for those perfumed quill kind either-too dangerous...
...Rolls-Royce Merlin or the U.S.-made Allison, which drove some of World War II's fastest fighters. Normally, these engines generate around 1,600 h.p. at 3,000 r.p.m. But this is not enough for the hydroplaners. Mechanics bolster the engines with fancy superchargers and heavy-duty quill shafts until they can turn out some 2,650 h.p. at 4,500 r.p.m., then add a gearbox to boost propeller speed as high as 12,000 r.p.m...
...acidulous prime, Gossipmonger Walter Winchell stood second to no columnist for journalistic terseness, ferocity and cheek. A chronic vendettist, he repeatedly bared his teeth and his quill in Winchell feuds: against Singer Josephine Baker ("pro-Fascist, a troublemaker"). the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (they quarreled over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people...
...Gallery of Western Art in Cody, Wyo. (pop. 5,872), this oversight was remedied. Now tourists, folklore specialists and art lovers alike can see in a handsome 240-ft.-long gallery the Old West in all its glory, ranging from an Indian brave's buckskin jacket with porcupine-quill embroidery and the original "Deadwood Stage" built in Concord, N.H. in 1840 to works by such master painters of the West as George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt and Alfred Jacob Miller, plus the entire studio collection of Frederic Remington, the greatest of Western painters, donated by the W. R. Coe Foundation...
Obviously this sort of script calls for desperate measures. John D. Hancock, who directed, has taken them, but they are the wrong ones. In his efforts to stir up laughter, he has employed books, scrolls, wineskins, spectacles, a rolling pin, a gavel, quill pens, a pitcher, drinking glasses, an earring, a pogo stick, and a live rabbit, among other things. If the rabbit could have been induced to misbehave on cue, I have no doubt but that this would also have been added to the pleasures of the occasion. The cast performs with commendable energy, which might better have been...