Word: wart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this pleasing young Mr. Lincoln, tall, spare Actor Henry Fonda stayed home nights to read up on the part, acted Lincolnesque on the set and off. During the filming he walked on three-inch stilts built into his boots, wore a rubber buildup on his nose and an applied wart on his right cheek. Director John Ford (The Informer) refused to see Fonda without his makeup, refused to let superProducer Darryl F. Zanuck dabble in the job, turned out, as a result, a jim-dandy piece of Lincoln mythology...
Geographic nub of the system of 23 new or expanded bases in the Pacific outlined by the Navy is the Island of Guam. A glance at the geography of the Pacific (see map} is enough to tell anyone why that 210-square-mile, mountainous wart on the Pacific may one day be a spot as important as Gibraltar. After the war Japan was given a mandate over the once German Caroline Islands. The Caroline Islands lie across the U. S. route to the Philippines, and Guam lies across the Japanese route to the Carolines. In 1922 the Washington Naval...
...magician was born in the future, is living backwards in time, getting younger. This device is the excuse for numerous anachronisms: since Merlyn knows what will happen in the 20th Century, why not make some of it happen in the 13th? He does, to the delight of the Wart, to the confusion of Kay, Sir Ector and the reader...
Merlyn's method of education is to put the Wart through more metamorphoses than a moth ever dreamed of. Ffft! The Wart is a fish, learning self-preservation from a tench and a pike. Presto! He is a hawk, learning bravery. He becomes a snake, learning 20th-century theories of evolution, a badger, learning about adaptation, an owl, learning how trees and stones talk (so slowly that they could be heard only if time passed at the rate of 30 years per minute...
...Wart also encounters a witch, a giant who apparently represents 20th-century totalitarianism, and Robin Hood, whose real name, according to White, was Robin Wood. (The W slurred off, and recent highbrow scholars, thinking 'ood a Cockney abbreviation, added H.) After all his adventures the Wart still has strength enough to pull the legendary magic sword out of the anvil, win the right to be King Arthur...