Word: stander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record "The Power of America in Buildings," as the exhibition was called, Ferriss spent ten months and a $2,000 Arnold W. Brunner grant which the Architectural League of New York gave him last year. With his artist wife as aide and chief stander-by and his Swarthmore daughter Jean, who was gathering material for a thesis (The Effects of Locality on Authors), Ferriss motored 18,000 miles...
...Errol "Custer's-Last-Stand" Flynn as he enters West Point. Here we see that he is a bad (really good) boy with a rebellious spirit, great imagination, and native fighting ability. After this, we see Errol the Civil War hero, Errol the Indian saviour, and Errol the "last stander," before the movie ends on a note of gaudy patriotism...
Brooklyn, U.S.A. (by John Bright & Asa Bordages; produced by Bern Bernard & Lionel Stander). The Brooklyn "businessmen" who operated as Murder Inc. here return unsoftened and undisguised. No hopped-up killer-diller, Brooklyn, U.S.A. is as tough, cold-blooded and obscene as the rats who are its characters. A fast two-man job with an ice pick in a barbershop creates more horror, carries more conviction than Hollywood's slickest thrill-mongering. But once the D.A. gets the mobsters on the run, the play loses its fascinating documentary flavor, becomes just another melodrama...
...seasons ago, "Three Men on a Horse," Eddie Cantor, whom most of us have never seen on the stage, hoofs his way through the part of Erwin Trowbridge, a greeting-card rhyme writer who dreams hot tips about horse races. He falls into the hands of a gambler, Lionel Stander, who Jocks him in a hotel apartment and makes him dream up tips. Then there is Erwin's wife, Stander's moll, a lot of snappy lines, one or two good songs, and Banjo Eyes, the dreamland nag who whinnies out the tips...