Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solid Flesh...
...Bermuda-bound airline pilot who emptied his father's ashes in flight. "That's what Dad wanted," the News said he said. "He wanted me to fly him to Bermuda, but I never got the chance. This was the only way . . ." And for a more solid tug at the heartstrings, there was a Harlem mother in tearful collapse after her daughter, little Carmelita Rodriguez, and her playmate had been killed by a coal truck in a "safe" play street...
...substance. The black and tan model and black and grey artist-who, unlike clean-shaven, square-cut Braque, sported a spade beard and cheroot-both wavered in uncertain silhouette against the grey and yellow wallpaper. At one moment the figures seemed thin as cardboard; at another they became block-solid...
Willie fought cautiously for three rounds, peppering Champion Sandy Saddler with rapierlike left jabs and occasionally plastering him with solid rights. The champion, a willowy 22-year-old Negro from Manhattan, had a longer reach and harder punch, but he had a hard time hitting shifty Willie. The Hartfordites roared with partisan joy as Willie built up a lead on points. Then the fight became a slugging match as the 126-pounders threw everything they had. Saddler had Pep reeling drunkenly in the tenth round; another good punch would have been the end of Willie. But wily Willie, a shrewd...
Story No. i (The Facts of Life) is a pleasant, inconsequential gag and No. 2 (The Alien Corn) a piece of out & out bathos. But script No. 3 is a solid bite of meatiest Maugham. The Kite is the story of Herbert Sunbury (George Cole), a simple-minded city lad with a possessive mom (Hermione Baddeley) and a small boy's passion for flying kites on the local commons. But Herbert's young bride wants him with no kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays...