Word: stringbean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Downs has continued at a 23 point a game clip since that evening. He has had considerable assistance from Gerry Glynn, 6 ft., 10 in. stringbean, whose effectiveness under the basket has increased steadily throughout the year. Glynn has averaged 15 points a game, despite a slow start at the outset of the season...
...Throat-wise, it's delicious.'' Plotwise, the fictional Piel boys, whose lines are spoken by radio's Bob (Elliott) and Ray (Goulding), are a study in opposites. Pint-sized Bert is a gabby, obnoxious supersalesman who shouts his commercials, scolds the audience and continually squelches Stringbean Harry. After a few seconds of bumptious Bert, viewers feel so sorry for well-meaning Harry that they listen carefully to every word he has to say. A New Jersey woman even wrote in to upbraid the brewery for the "loud, offensive" way in which Bert bullies his brother...
...Gadein was a stringbean of a Negro tribesman, simple and guileless as a calf, awkward as a young camel and endlessly tolerant of abuse. He wore an iron ring through his nose, and around his waist a belt of lizard skins and tinkling bells. His father Abu Zed, was the potbellied chief of three African villages, and he was thoroughly disgusted with Gadein. Smaller boys outran him and outfought him. The village girls and, indeed, the whole village, laughed at him. "Here comes the lunatic!" the young men would roar. On the night of the great feast, Abu Zed publicly...
Nobody seems sure how old the stringbean Negro is. Satchmo himself has always been vague about the date of his birth in Mobile, Ala. The best guess...
Immediately after the war, the hour-glass outline was in vogue: accentuated, and inflated, the female figure took on a "New Look." But in the last few years, with box jackets, stringbean silhouettes, and lower waists, the curve has straightened...