Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pass the time while waiting, Pilot Marsh and members of his crew fished in the Little Big Horn. One morning while fishing they saw a mounted Indian burst through the brush on the water's edge. He pulled up his sweating pony, signaled with his carbine that he was friendly. They looked again and saw that he was a Crow known as Curley, one of the 7th Cavalry's native scouts. Curley hurried aboard the Far West, immediately gave way to "the most violent demonstrations...
That's easy. Hoffenstein's get-nowhere say nothing script condemns the picture from the start. The potential comedy in a story about a maid with a yen for fixing plumbing and an over-frank manner in the presence of superiors gets stuck in an under brush of plot complications. Given this bad material to work with, Lubitsch has made the worst of it. He has miscast both Miss Jones and Boyer in light comedy parts, and his attempts at satirizing English high-life seem ponderous, especially when handled by Peter Lawford and Helen Walker. Add to this a further...
Charles Sparks Thomas is a prosperous Los Angeles cloak-&-suit merchant. He has never run for office or made a political speech, and never wants to. Until a few months ago, his closest brush with politics was a matter of geography; he was born next door to Bess Truman's girlhood home in Independence, Mo., 48 years...
...mathematics of handicaps had been worked out, the prize went to the blue-hulled, 57-ft. sloop Gesture, carrying the first suit of nylon sails ever used in a big ocean race. Gesture had been the third to finish. Her skipper: square-jawed Howard Fuller, president of the Fuller Brush Co. He had won the slowest Bermuda race since the first race 40 years...
...opponents tried to brush him off as a "junior G-man," got sidetracked in feuds of their own. When election day came, Michigan voters swept him into the nomination with a 50,000 lead over his nearest rival. Their 3-to-1 majority over Democrats voting the same day made Kim Sigler a good bet to beat the Democrats' former Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner to the state house in the fall...