Word: pigeoning
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...years and serves it well, mounting to successive levels of exasperation with as much ease and artistry as Bix Beiderbecke ever displayed in reaching the high note on his cornet. Cameron Mitchell makes the luckless Alderman a consistent and believable hu man being as well as a clay pigeon. Those who remember the sexy serenity with which Ruth Etting handled such numbers as the title song, Everybody Loves My Baby, At Sundown, and It All Depends on You, may find Doris Day's characterization of the star both too pallid and too girl-next-door. Doris tries hard...
...Government soon called him to Washington, for the summer of 1941, as a Senior Research Analyst in the State Department. "I was writing little digests which they evidently liked," Reischauer explains. "Also, with another young fellow, I drew up a grand scheme for avoiding the war, but someone pigeon-holed it somewhere...
...conference President Eisenhower answered a question on the re-proposal of the Bricker Amendment by saying that his opposition to any weakening of presidential treaty-making powers had not changed "one iota." A few days later Secretary of State Dulles strongly attacked the bill; and it now seems effectively pigeon-holed in Senate Committee...
Tight Spot (Columbia) offers Ginger Rogers as a melancholy dame who must ask herself whether it is nobler in the mind to be a jailbird or a dead pigeon. Edward G. Robinson, the Government attorney, drags her out of a nice warm prison to offer a very cold proposition indeed: Will she turn state's evidence against a powerful underworldling in return for a reduction in sentence? While Ginger thinks it over, she trollops around her hotel suite, munching breast of guinea hen and the biceps of a policeman (Brian Keith) at Government expense. When Keith declines to give...
...test on Type II? "Take your candidate to the fields and the barns. Escort her across a muddy feed lot, lead her through poison ivy and, poison and all, take her to a dance. She'll complain . . . but if she comes back for more, she's your pigeon...