Word: socketed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couldn't wait; I rushed out. Reaching home, I unstrapped the contraption that serves as a substitute for my left leg since I had an argument with a germ several years ago and lost, and there in the bottom of the socket, wedged tight, was the wallet...
...sooner has the customer rubbed his magic wallet than presto! the first monster, a 50-ft. orange Cyclops, materializes on the screen and comes charging straight at him-the colossal eye rolling around in its prodigious socket like a cannon ball in a bathtub, the fangs dripping like bloody stalactites. Luckily, the wicked magician (Torin Thatcher) puts a whammy on the brute, but then he also puts a whammy on the beautiful princess (played by Kathryn Grant, billed as "Mrs. Bing Crosby"). Unfortunately, the audience will not get much of a look at the young celebrity. When the magician gets...
...extra ticket, mistah?" The urchins were flanking him, demanding his attention, scowling at him. "Got an extra ticket?" He stopped in the middle of Larz Anderson Bridge and carefully poured one eye-socket of bourbon...
...What's that?" Sebbie asked as Vag poured into the eye socket...
...elements. He first demonstrated this phenomenon with a crude but spectacular Rube Goldbergish kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, 4-in. electromagnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of glass, brass and sealing wax, all put together for $25. When he hooked this odd gizmo up to an ordinary electric socket, atoms whirled around faster than those emitted by radium...