Word: chutist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field charged grease-monkeys and Negro engineers working near by. 'Chutists got out of their harnesses to face rifles and clubs. One 'chutist, roughed up by a soldier as he landed, calmly unbuckled his harness, knocked three teeth out of the other soldier's mouth, walked away without a word. No sooner had the air infantry landed than most of them were prisoners...
...feuding hillbilly (Buddy Ebsen), a colonel's son who thought himself yellow (Edmond O'Brien) and an amorous football hero (Robert Preston) is that the picture survives the plot's monkeyshines. Better left unmentioned is RKO's error in making its football chutist an All-American from Harvard, a university which has not turned out a bona fide All-American in nine years...
Word got out that a German 'chutist had actually landed in Eire. Police arrested two suspects, found parachute, cap and equipment, but no 'chutist. Raiding the house of a Dubliner named Stephen Carroll Held, they next found not only an opened German parachute, German Air Force cap and German uniform insignia, but also maps of Dublin bridges, harbors and airdrome, a box containing $20,000 in U. S. money. The parachute, Held explained, had been left by a German named Heinrich Brandy, who had stayed at his house after arriving from the sky. The second suspect, Mrs. Iseult...