Word: hummingbird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember that Lynn Belvedere touched off a social explosion at the end of "Sitting Pretty" with the publication of his novel "Hummingbird Hill." In the interim between the two movies, he lost a fortune in libel suits, but at the same time won a literary award of $10,000. Since the award stipulates that the recipient must hold a college degree, in "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" we find Mr. Belvedere doing just that--entering the ivied campus of Clemens U. as a gray-haired freshman...
...playing the comedy role that turned last year's Sitting Pretty into a smash box-office hit. Mr. Belvedere is no longer a babysitter, but he is still insufferably and hilariously patronizing; he is still a self-confessed genius and he is still broke. His bestselling book, Hummingbird Hill, has won him fame, but lost him a fortune in libel suits. All he has left is a $10,000 prize which he can collect only by taking a college degree. With acidulous hauteur, he enrolls as a freshman at Clemens University, gets a job as hasher at the Triple...
Once someone asked North American Aviation's able president, James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, about North American's prospects at war's end. Said he: "It will be like taking a full-grown eagle and attempting to stuff him back into a hummingbird's egg-without breaking the shell...
...fans insist that 41-year-old Danilova is "a dancer's dancer," the best classical dancer today. Most balletomanes allow her ballet's most beautiful legs (a critic once called them "flexible and . . . fast [as a] hummingbird's wings...
While put-putting over Italian battlefields in his Piper Cub, bored Artillery Observer Lieut. Arley Wilson used to dream great dreams for his hummingbird plane. Occasionally he strafed Germans with his .45 automatic, or dropped leaflets urging them to surrender to his "superior air forces." Last week he organized a bombing mission...