Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catnapping in her bedroom before her evening performance of The Philadelphia Story, stormy, eel-hipped Actress Katharine Hepburn woke to see a burglar about to loot her dressing table. She shrieked: "What the hell are you doing there?", leaped out of bed. The burglar, scared witless, hurtled down the stairs...
Going ashore from a friend's ketch, the Blue Moon, for a visit in friendly Maine (one of the two States which wanted him for President), Alfred Mossman London slipped, cracked two ribs. He got himself strapped up, continued his cruise.
A midge-sized Negro bootblack named Charles McFarland tried to get $3,000 damages from ex-Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey. His story: because he inadvertently tickled Dempsey's ribs while adjusting his coat, Dempsey fetched him a belly blow, damaged his already ulcerated innards. Dempsey's successful defense: "If...
* Who told news photographers at Columbia's commencement exercises to keep 85 feet away from him. (Photographers covering the King and Queen's tour were allowed to come 65 feet nearer royalty.)
Novice Eshleman, an astral gleam in his eye, took off for what he said (in a letter to the press) would be Mars, 51,813,800 miles away.* Near Philadelphia he alighted briefly to take on 55 gallons (which, he later explained, was to carry him beyond gravitational pull, whence...