Word: stoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperate 15 minutes of silliness on the air. Before the show was over, the studio switchboard was jammed with calls from entranced listeners, and Stoopnagle & Budd were a top team in radio for the next eight years. In 1938 the partners went their separate ways,* and the vogue for Stoop's simpleton style of comedy vanished...
...left foot dragged the ground, he developed a stoop. He suffered from an infected sinus, swollen glands in the neck, continual headaches and stomach cramps. To relieve these pains, his physician gave him a proprietary drug compounded of strychnine and belladonna. It was called Dr. Koester's Antigas Pills...
Jazz music receives three types of treatment from writers today: 1) complete disregard from those who prefer not to "stoop"; 2) lofty head-patting from classical critics who think Louis Armstrong primarily a movie comedian; and 3) intelligent reporting by explorers who know whereof they speak...
Dinner, in the Dorchester suite, is another meeting, usually with other top-Rankers. Among them is Leslie ("Silent") Farrow, 57, a stoop-shouldered, 6 ft. 4 in. bishop's-crook of a man who is Rank's chief financial adviser. Few underlings have ever heard Farrow say anything more than "Good morning." Another aide is G. I. Woodham Smith, 51, Rank's chief counsel, who has been described as "a good lawyer, American style-he laughs all the time...
...incompetence or they cease to be clowns. Chaplin once, in The Gold Rush, broke the underlying significance of his role and spoiled a great film. He forgot Chariot the outcast to become a millionaire and marry the girl, like any John Gilbert or Ronald Colman. Clowns cannot possibly stoop to such romance. They are, in essence, super realists . . . tragedians in disguise. Their endings are happy for everyone but themselves...