Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cure. In Lynchburg, Va., Lawrence Tweedy sued his doctor for $20,000, charged him with administering treatment that removed Tweedy's case of athlete's foot-and his big toe with...
Caches. In Chillicothe, Mo., a nervous second-hand dealer looked up the car he'd sold six days before, opened the trunk, pulled out $2,000, explained to the new owner: "That was my bank-I forgot." Near Chicago, Ralph Dean wiggled his big toe while taking a bus ride, felt far too comfortable, frantically remembered the four $20 bills he was saving; cops got his money back from the cobbler who had put new heels on Dean's shoes...
Either Bill Bennett or Barry Turner will toe the mound for the Jayvees, with George Strout slated to catch...
With Kisses. To whip up Royalist enthusiasm the royal couple this year have visited troubled Macedonia, Thessaly and Epirus. In Salonika Frederika plunged, over official protests, into the working quarter, won a few smiles and cheers from sullen leftists, was kissed ("from top to toe," she said) by working women outside an orphanage. When she left Salonika, a shopkeeper arranged a triptych of photographs in his window: Frederika flanked by Stalin and the Greek Communist leader, Zachariades...
...stands a solid 6 ft. in heels and hairdo, looks a well-seasoned 30 even in kindly after-dinner light. But as she drifts regally between tight-packed tables, cased in her working harness (a high-necked, pink-&-blue job by Sophie of Saks, encrusted from top to toe with 20 pounds of bead-work), Evelyn suggests a youthful Magda Lupescu. And when she finds a suitable ringside male, she manages to convey, crooning to the poor Joe from a good six feet off, that she is twisting her fingers in his hair...