Word: worming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poet Francis Ponge: "Long live the agile and glossy worm, the agent of time, clothed in energy from the food of our bodies...
...song is now the town's own anthem, the occasion was marked with fitting energy. Through the first night the townspeople, bearing pinewood torches, paraded, fired Roman candles and danced. Next morning, with hardly more than a pause for some fiery 120-proof mescal (drunk with powdered cactus-worm salt for additional flavor), a new parade started...
...marriage, a respectable suburbanite walks out on his nagging wife, shrewish mother-in-law and doltish daughter. But first, he tells them all off. Betty Ann Davies, Mary Merrall and Dorothy Gordon are suitably unpleasant as the ladies, and Stanley Holloway is just about right as the long-suffering worm who turns...
...Water Worm. Plastic garden hose which acts as a lawn sprinkler was put on sale by A. M. Andrews Co. of Portland, Ore. Holes punched along the Vinylite hose spray a 12-ft.-wide swath of lawn. Price for a 50-ft. length, which weighs only 1½ lbs. and can be rolled into a 6-in. bundle...
Gone Are the Days. During the '20s, '30s and part of the '40s, music publishers got along well enough without much help from the record industry. In the early days, such a hit as Glow Worm might sell two or three million copies of sheet music for them. After it was launched in vaudeville or a Broadway show, its principal salesman was a fast-talking song plugger whose job it was to visit bandleaders and coax or coerce a performance out of them. If he could get a song on Kate Smith's radio program...