Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dropped in to see the wares. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary appeared and smiled benignly on the bustling scene. Under fluorescent lights, on 26 miles of counter, lay samples of nearly everything Britain produces-from jewelry, and tennis rackets strung with nylon, to men's suits made of plastic fabrics and dolls that could take a swig from a milk bottle, blow bubbles and weep realistic tears. A group of British models displayed highly exportable bathing suits. Britain's Socialist government begged British businessmen to get in there and pitch a good, hard, competitive game. The New Statesman...
Like lyric writing (for some 50 unsung songs), radio (where, after five failures, his current show-Wed. 9 p.m. E.D.T., ABC-is fattening on his TV glory), and movies (for which a plastic surgeon bobbed his nose in 1939), the theater is one of Milton's gnawing frustrations. This season, while already riding high in TV, he tried unsuccessfully to get a supporting role in South Pacific. But producers are now wooing him instead...
...pouring gags into the man. He also helped salvage an actress from alcoholism, wrote an act for her, paid for its musical arrangements, made the bookings and appeared with her on the early engagements. He is easily approachable to down-&-outers, and generous with gifts. Among his unusual presents: plastic-nose operations just like his own for his secretary and the head of his fan club...
...Siragusa had to knock the roof off his plastics plant to lower the 40-foot press into place on its 6-ft.-thick concrete base. Finally, the hissing, throbbing monster (Dom calls it "Gargantua") was ready for trial. It pressed down on $6.50 worth of preheated blocks of phenol plastic and molded a complete 35-lb. cabinet, the biggest plastic "casting" made...
...practical jokers. A woman in Seattle reported excitedly that a flaming disc had landed on her roof. When examined by federal agents and Navy bomb experts, it turned out to be a 28-in. disc of plywood with two radio tubes and a quart oilcan mounted on pieces of plastic. Painted on the wood were a hammer & sickle and the letters, U.S.S.R. Another "flaming saucer" that spun down from overhead gave Shreveport, La. a good scare, turned out to be a joke by a local prankster who wanted to frighten his boss...