Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What obviously amused Kaufman and Hart was that the Hollywood of the period was a Seventh Avenue transplant...
Norman Shumway, Stanford heart-transplant pioneer, and his colleague, Immunologist Rose Payne, who kept the new hearts from being rejected...
...Holy Cross, basketball transplant Ronnie Perry had a couple of hits and played well enough at shortstop to make up for his three-error performance last year at Harvard, from whence came the famous needle, "Hey, Perry, you don't have to dribble it before you throw...
DADDY WARBUCKS KNEW how to play the game, Just let anybody mess around with his little orphan, Annie--Asian smuuglers, Russian spies out to topple the free world, mad opthamologists aiming to give her a pupil transplant--and the fun would start. Before Sandy could even "Arf," Daddy would be on the scene in his 200-foot yacht, puffing on a dark Havana as he watched Punjab and the Asp contrive a properly nasty comicstrip zoom for the malefactors. It was a fun little game, and Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion...
Field believes that the young relationship in the early '40s was uneasy because both writers were at awkward stages in their careers. Nabokov's European reputation had yet to transplant itself to America. Wilson the literary journalist was just becoming Wilson the critic and man of letters. Furthermore, says Field, Wilson often chose to play the brooding Russian, while Nabokov played the easygoing American. The following conversation is reported to have taken place in 1942 - Wilson: "Do you believe in God?" Nabokov: "Do you?" Wilson: "What a strange question!" According to Field, the friendship ended in 1954, when...