Word: spigot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same way that hair and fingernails have been popularly believed to grow after death. So he performs an autopsy on the body of an electrocuted criminal, frightens his wife unconscious by faking her murder, finally shocks a deaf-mute into a heart-stopping nightmare-blood running from the bathroom spigot, a rubber-masked fiend with knife and hatchet popping out of closets, etc. This last time, when the doctor performs his autopsy, a cockroach-like incarnation of fear escapes, the movie stops, and the silhouetted "tingler" itself seems to be crawling on the blank screen...
...attachment to the spigot, Brendan turns it off during his writing bouts. Not that it is easy to stick to work, now that the vagabond liver has money and fame. Brendan has started a novel about Dublin, but, he says, "I can't get on with it with all this blanking success." Meanwhile, since his Borstal Boy was banned as "obscene" by the Irish government, he strides about bellowing (to the tune of MacNamara's Band...
Beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of one of Rome's proudest 16th century families, had just taken her first lover. The scene: a heap of empty sacks in the wine cellar. The man: her father's steward. "Time passed. She heard the drops clicking rhythmically from a spigot. The smell of wine, the scent of burlap, the pungent scent of Olimpio-they wove a dark separate world, safe, secret, profound." How profound or how secret Beatrice's new world really was is something for historians to argue about. But safe it clearly was not. Less than two years...
...Door. A refrigerator with a built-in spigot in the door was introduced by Motor Products Corp.'s Deep Freeze division and Crosley. The tap connects itself with a large dispenser that holds water, fruit juice or other beverage...
...spied a small, shining object and uncovered the end of a metal tube. The tube led them under the distillery walls, 100 yds. along a ditch, across a meadow, into a garage on the national highway."Mon Dieu! What a scheme!" said an admiring Frenchman. "You just turn a spigot and the liquor gushes out!" Arrested in Belgium, Garageowner Edouard Welcomme and his wife implicated others, and soon the town of Hazebrouck was filled with denunciations and counter-denunciations. Result: Abel Vandamme, a rich textile manufacturer living in a castle near Lille, and accused of being the "brain...