Word: snowbanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bare details of one failure after another. Battling 100-m.p.h. winds and 40-below-zero temperatures, the rescuers could not even get started for three days. When they did, the B-17 swerved out of control as it swooped down on to the rutted icecap, nosed over into a snowbank and marooned its two crewmen with the others...
...what this reviewer considers one of the best comedy teams on record, Paramount has whipped up a drawn-out melange of corny gags and predicaments. No, holds are barred; all the old and faithful chestnuts are dragged out again for further milking. Picture, if you will, Hope dissolving a snowbank with the heat he generates in a love scene, or the ubiquitous Lamour displaying the inevitable sarong amidst the Alaskan snows. And a talking bear complaining that the writers haven't given him any good lines. And so forth...
Instead the prison train went north from Montreal into the Laurentian Mountains, and Werra, seeing his plans upset, dived out the train window into a snowbank. Speaking French fluently, he had no difficulty hitching lifts with habitants for about 140 miles, through Ottawa to the St. Lawrence. He paddled across to the U.S. at night in a stolen boat, landing near Ogdensburg, N.Y. with his ears badly frozen...
...examining the same buildings and paths, finding something old to chuckle over. He spoke precisely, in balanced periods, and his stories all had rhythm and fetching climaxes. How Copey served caviare to the general of the Salvation Army, how an English A student described the "chaste palpitation" of a snowbank, a priceless story about George Eliot, what Henry James said to the goody--this was his discourse...