Word: stooping
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...lost all his teeth and could not play any more even if he wanted to. "And besides," says he, "I loan my cornet to a man and he never come back." Bunk tried trucking, at $1.50 a day. He found it too strenuous and became a stoop laborer in the rice fields. "But," says he, "I always whistle. I can whistle real good...
...More the Merrier (Columbia) is a smart, civilized comedy about wartime Washington's nationally famous housing shortage. It does credit to Director George Stevens (now an Army major) as his last civilian job. It is also a credit to its principals-Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, and especially stoop-shouldered veteran Charles Coburn...
Gentleman Director. A rare bird in Hollywood is tall (6 ft. 3), white-haired,-stoop-shouldered Howard Hawks. A quiet, cultured citizen, he was educated in engineering at Cornell ('17), served in the Air Corps (not overseas) in World War I, broke into movies as a prop man with the old Famous Players-Lasky. When he inherited $150,000 from his grandfather, he plunged it all in a Western (Ben Hampton of Placer), tripled his money, lost it all on a second Western (never finished...
...Tobruk did Australians realize that their Pacific second front was receding into the future, and chat they had in their midst the strange spectacle of a four-star general, only top-ranking U.S. officer experienced in actual combat in World War II, stranded on the war's back stoop without a fight on his hands...
Clapper is a stocky, stoop-shouldered man with beaked nose, retreating forehead, thoughtful blue-grey eyes set in dark rings like small rain clouds. Younger looking than his 50 years, he gives the appearance of being easily transplantable back to the east Kansas farm where he was born...