Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definitely not your privilege to say that I quit work at my studio. Such a statement reflects most seriously on my professional integrity and has done me great harm in the motion-picture industry and elsewhere. Nor, despite whatever pipe dream gave you the notion, was any plumber blown through my cellar door. Your most vicious slur was that "even escape into the anonymity of the Army is impossible-Flynn has 'athlete's heart.'''. . . My record for "escaping" is in the Army files...
...Gentleman Jim was to be changed to merely Jim-a report Warner Bros. denied.) The harried actor, who faces a preliminary hearing of both cases this week, quit work at his studio, announced he felt rather sick, headed wearily for home. Next day his furnace exploded, blew a plumber through the cellar door, blew up some $5,000 worth of Flynn diggings. And even escape into the anonymity of the Army is impossible: Flynn has "athlete's heart...
...contrast, the prison commander's nerves collapsed at not having prevented "an event which must never be allowed to happen." He saw himself demoted to his pre-Nazi destiny-a plumber's assistant. He went out to the space grimly known as the Dancing Ground and ordered nail-studded cross boards attached to the seven plane trees which grew there. As each fugitive was recaptured, he would be forced to stand strapped tightly to the nails...
...Europe by shooting down a Focke-Wulf 190 in the skies over Dieppe. (Modestly he claimed only a "probable" victory, because he did not have time to watch the plane crash.) Captain Hill was 23, from Hillsdale, NJ. He had been a high-school athlete, had worked as a plumber's helper. Now his picture showed him at a British airport after the battle (see cut), grinning toothily from his cockpit like a youngster tickled about his first solo...
Argentina's $18,000,000 state-owned Banco Municipal de Prestamos (pawnshop) paid off again last week. On July 9 (Independence Day), as it does on New Year's Day and May 25 (May Revolution Day), the Banco returned without charge the sewing machines, typewriters, plumber's wrenches and carpenter's tools which Argentina's poor had pawned and were still too poor to redeem...