Word: rib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, from 650 entries, the New Statesman ran some rib-tickling winners: ¶ I am sparkling; you are unusually talkative; he is drunk...
Girl Trouble. In Palo Alto, Calif., 100-lb. Mrs. Velma O'Day, angered by policemen who were questioning her, sent three to the hospital by kicking one of them, breaking another's rib, jabbing a cigarette in the third one's eye. In Pittsburgh, Nathaniel Evans won a divorce after he testified that his wife had threatened him (with a souvenir pistol), stabbed him (with a souvenir bayonet), and struck him (with a miniature Statue of Liberty...
Senator Alben W. Berkley of Kentucky, who had been feeling sore ever since he was in a smashup (TIME, Nov. 10), discovered that he had a busted rib. The Senator wore tape on his 70th birthday...
...Everybody Listeninq? MARCH OF TIME rib-roasts U.S. radio (TIME, Sept. 1). Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME...
Helen Hayes, whose playwright husband, Charles MacArthur, slipped in the shower last year and cracked a rib, slipped in the same shower, grabbed at a porcelain grip, broke it, sliced her right forearm ten stitches worth...