Word: fixit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KEITH MEMORIAL--Little Miss Fixit, alias Deanna Durbin, wends her charming way through another of the average stories Hollywood has bestowed on her, and comes out on top by virtue of a clever script, her own unforced gaiety, and the really remarkable Durbin voice. Those who cringe at the mere mention of sentimentality are not gong to enjoy "Three smart Girls Grow Up," for there are the inevitable "intimate" bedroom scenes, tear-besmirched love affairs, and deep, dark young-girl secrets. But the sentiment is seasoned with humor-as, indeed, the whole film is; Charles Winninger, a hopelessly absentminded Wall...
...scene of The Merchant of Yonkers is Manhattan in the '80s. but old as the European theatre is the plot of the sweated apprentices who sneak off for a holiday, of their miserly old master (Percy Waram) on the hunt for a wife, and of the obliging Mrs. Fixit (Jane Cowl) who fixes things to suit herself. The slapstick is the same that, 200 years ago. drew tears of laughter from simple London cits and beefy German burghers: mistaken identity, boys dressed up as girls, people hiding under tables, lurking in clothes presses, listening behind screens, popping...
...commission of two superannuated admirals and a man from the Treasury Department, but not immediately could he get the man he really wanted to do the job. After his brilliant performance launching SEC, a lot of people with big business headaches wanted Joseph Patrick Kennedy to be their Mr. Fixit. Paramount Pictures, Inc. paid him $50,000 for a drastic survey report. William Randolph Hearst got him to look over his jumbled publishing empire (see p. 26). Not until this spring did Franklin Roosevelt persuade his rusty-haired friend again to give up his private affairs, say goodby...
...prime example of his period and place, Noah Webster (1758-1843) was a school-teacher who by zeal and persistence became a Citizen Fixit to the whole U. S. Because he insisted on bursting out of his own bailiwick to mend his neighbors' manners, he was not popular; but before he died the U. S. was proud of him. Even more than his Dictionary his famed blue-backed Speller (which sold nearly 100 million copies before it went out of use) knit U. S. dialects together into one more-or-less standard tongue, poured a patriotic iron tonic into...