Word: stickler
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Evil Influence. Big Bill was never a stickler for the rules of labor etiquette. He never boggled when one of his agents, Robert Brindell, turned to full-scale labor racketeering in New York, sold "strike insurance" to contractors, peddled "privilege to work" cards to non-unionists, and cleared a cool million dollars. Brindell ultimately was jailed for extortion after a special state investigation. Investigator Samuel Untermeyer formally urged the A.F.L. convention of 1922 to get rid of "Brindell's crony, Hutcheson, who has been an evil influence...
...suffers most is Detective McLeod (Kirk Douglas), a stickler for justice untempered by mercy, who bears down on a confused first offender as sadistically as he hounds a criminal abortionist. His life is dedicated in about equal parts to the remorseless pursuit of wrongdoers and to the love of his young wife (Eleanor Parker). Then he learns that she was one of the abortionist's patients before he married...
This posed a stickler for Shaw's trusted friend, Producer Gabriel (Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra) Pascal, who had to stretch the two-acter, Androcles and the Lion, to feature length. Pascal finally wangled a grudging O.K. from the trustees of Shaw's estate to raise the alteration rate to 25%, and fattened up the script with lines borrowed from Shaw's own preface. With the biggest barrier hurdled, Androcles was only two weeks behind schedule at RKO last week...
...Snatch. As an A.P. staffer for 14 years, Oatis had earned the good reputation the prosecutor damned him for. A stickler for accuracy and a digger for details, cautious, quiet Reporter Oatis had seemed just the man to put in charge of the bureau in Prague a year ago, after two chiefs had been booted out by the Czech government on trumped-up charges...
...Douglas MacArthur's 1st Cavalry and 24th Infantry Divisions, now in Korea. From April 1949 to his departure for Korea, Craig was the 1st's assistant division commander at Camp Pendleton, Calif., in charge of training under bull-roaring Graves B. ("The Big E") Erskine, a stickler for perfection who "turned over" (i.e., relieved) 15 colonels in one year.* To marines, the fact that Craig survived under Erskine is the proof that he is good...