Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady Eve (Paramount) is Writer-Director Preston Sturges' third straight comedy hit (following The Great McGinty, Christmas in July). It displays a complete set of highly original box-office wiles from the opening moment when a cartooned snake wriggles down the title and gets stuck trying to crawl through the O in Sturges' first name. The picture returns the lately heavily dramatic Barbara Stanwyck to glamor, with 25 swank costume changes, and reveals homespun Henry Fonda, with a drawing room haircut and 14 sound tailoring jobs, as one of the screen's most socially eligible juveniles...
Earl Carlson was born in Minneapolis during the blizzard of 1897. He was injured by forceps, and still bears a scar on his forehead. He had to crawl on all fours till he was five, but was robust and mischievous. One day, to his mother's amazement, little Earl's flailing arms stole some apples from a fruit stand. "It was the first time that my hand had ever done my bidding," he said. "My stolen apples gave me the clue, not followed up for years, that the secret of control for the muscularly handicapped lies in concentration...
...waves they charged along at 40 knots, in smooth seas smashed along at better than 52 knots (60 m.p.h.). Lieut. Caldwell could also report that when the PTs were under high speed all day, their crews were pounded unmercifully; all they wanted, once back at the Yard, was to crawl into a bunk. The Navy had made no mistake in setting the age limit of PT crews at 35, in speedily washing out of PT service any man who got seasick in heavy going...
...course, an old-timer like me kind of missed the good old raccoon coats--they used to be sort of like a haystack--if you got bored with the game you could crawl inside and go to sleep...
Your reference in your Sept. 16 issue . . . to the Nazis crawling about like beetles all over South America is to my mind a fair example of the wishful thinking or poor reporting in which the U. S. press has been indulging itself for a long time, even though the events of the past few months have made it clear that we can no longer afford such nonsense. The Germans are strong in South America in certain sections, not so much be cause they crawl about like beetles performing their loathsome machinations at the dictates of the Nazi High Command...