Word: fireplug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacArthur) to resist being taken back to his white parents after having grown up as the adopted son of a Delaware Indian chief. On hand to make sure the boy minds his rail-splitting is a right friendly Army scout (Fess Parker). Actor MacArthur, who is built like a fireplug and is not much more expressive, sets out to make a mess of Fess. He swings at him with a rifle butt, wrestles with him in the muddy Ohio River. But sure 'nuff, he ends up back at the ranch, gloomily sitting in an old metal tub muttering, "Indian...
...female named Laika after its breed. But, though they use the word regularly in covering dog shows, newspapers and v:ire services were not so indelicate as to call it a bitch. City-room funsters showed less restraint in gags about the contents of the next Sputnik (a fireplug) or a quote from Laika's earthbound boy friend ("Someone up there loves me"). After perpetrating such lines as "The chow jumped over the moon" and "How the mighty Laika rose," the Chicago American noted: 'The Russian sputpup isn't the first dog in the sky. That honor...
...five states last week, primary elections shook down fields of hopefuls for the serious campaigning ahead: ¶In Ohio a pair of fireplug-size campaigners earned the right to meet in November for the governor's chair that Frank J. Lausche is vacating to run for the U.S. Senate. Ex-Federal Price Boss Michael V. Di Salle (5 ft. 5 in., 212 Ibs.) gathered more votes than his four Democratic opponents combined, while State Attorney General C. William O'Neill (5 ft. 5 in., 160 Ibs.) drubbed Lieut. Governor John W. Brown for the Republican nomination. Biggest surprise...
Zuzu, a local Airedale, would make a perfect Hollywood glamour girl. She is absolutely indifferent to the public, to say she enjoys sex is an understatement, and her poise is so developed she can pass a fireplug without batting an eyelash...