Word: scarecrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislate as well as to annul laws because of alleged violation of the Constitution has in the past caused Congress to reverse decisions of that court many times. No wonder Jefferson predicted that we will be governed by a judicial oligarchy with the threat of impeachment a mere scarecrow...
Betsy Nelson, as Dorothy, must separate her emotions from the foolishness of her clown-friends, and in not displaying much sympathy she does this only to a limited extent. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion, as played by John Bernard, Fred Morehouse, and John Fenn, have a lot more fun and are very successful. Marc Brugnoni's excellent Wizard has a winsomeness and honesty which is very appealing. He, Fenn, and Anne Adams, in the dubious role of the Good Witch, turn in the happiest performances in pleasant, sprightly show...
...Chemical Scarecrow. To keep birds off window sills, ledges, etc., National Bird Control Laboratories of Skokie, Ill. put on the market a chemical in an aerosol container. The chemical, harmless to people and birds, will keep birds off any surface it is sprayed on. Price...
While gun fights raged around him, 61-year-old William Beaudine Sr. scrambled last week over the rocky hills of Big Bear, Calif. Looking like a scarecrow in a straw sombrero, worn levis and scuffed sneakers, Director Beaudine shouted, "Cut it! Print it!" and wound up the shooting of an eight-episode package of Wild Bill Hickok TV films. Bill Beaudine was making TV movies as quickly and cheaply as any director in the business...
...when Elmer left to go on to Holland, the French farmers insisted he come back once more and teach them to teach still others before he left for good. Elmer promptly accepted the invitation. For one thing, it will give him a chance to buy one of those cannon scarecrows. An uninhibited man who startled the Democratic conventioneers in Chicago last July by leading a live donkey into the lobby of the Palmer House, Elmer badly wants a cannon scarecrow to take home to Iowa; he thinks he might even set it up on the rail of his ship...