Word: yew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Without a Star (Universal). "Did yew say INSAHD the haouse?" Kirk Douglas, a new hand on the Triangle spread, is plumb dumfounded. "Wah," he gasps, "it hain't har'ly deesint." A little later he says to his pard he says, "Did yew heah whut thet maan said? INSAHD the haouse!" As they ride out to the ranch. Cowboy Douglas keeps shaking his head, he's that amazed. As soon as they get there, he wants to know, "Whin we gonna see it?" "After lunch," growls Jay C. Flippen, the foreman. After lunch, Douglas busts right...
...into the King's arms by making her salon a favorite with the most brilliant of France's intellectuals-Philosophers Montesquieu, Helvétius, the great Voltaire himself. The decisive meeting of the King and the beautiful bluestocking occurred at the splendid "Ball of the Clipped Yew Trees," when 35-year-old Louis and his courtiers masked themselves with headdresses of yew branches. One poor lady of the court allowed herself to be seduced by a right-royal-looking "yew tree"-only to find on her return to the ballroom that she had barked up the wrong...
...particular trip through The Tunnel of Love is a slap-happy cartoon editor named Dick. He sometimes wanders off the track to a dream cottage and holds imaginary conversations with beautiful women: "I like . . . deep woods and the smell of pine," one beauty murmurs. "I love pine." "I love yew," whispers Dick...
...vast Okefenokee swamp, with his friends. Among them: Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom bomb; the Deacon, a muskrat so elegantly educated that he speaks mostly in Old English script...