Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Timesman Raymond Daniell last week described a scene at the Casablanca meeting between Generals Giraud and de Gaulle. Giraud had said that he had a plan for the union of all French forces in the administration of the French Empire. De Gaulle was interested, asked to see it. Giraud stuck his hand into his pocket. The plan was not there. He looked in other pockets. De Gaulle waited. Finally Robert Murphy spoke up. "Here it is," he said, reaching into one of his own pockets and handing the plan to Giraud...
...think that's silly. All Flip said was that he had a cute babe with him, and that's the straight stuff. Dowst got a first sentence that made sense, and then dissolved into gibberish. There's still time. Lot's beat those stuck-up Boston papers. Let's go to press...
...delight in his fans. One evening he rode up to a San Diego camp theater with a general in a jeep, hopped out, swaggered through a crowd of Marines and declared: "I don't know about you fellows, but I'm with the general." Whereupon the general stuck out his chest too, observed: "I don't know about you fellows, but I'm with Bob Hope...
Though Russell, a British earl, dislikes his title, his wife called herself Lady Russell when telephoning the Foundation. This infuriated Barnes, who carries anti-snobbery to a point of fanatic snobbism. Snorted he: "She seems to have difficulty swallowing the impressive title of Lady Russell. It evidently gets stuck just below her larynx for she regurgitates it automatically...
...year ago Shaw got his first chance in high-brow music when Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church invited him to conduct its choir on the side. So far, husky, blue-eyed Robert Shaw has stuck to choruses, never attempted to conduct a symphony orchestra. But symphonic bigwigs from Leopold Stokowski to Sergei Koussevitzky have offered to teach him how. Self-consciously modest, yet with a touch of the fire-&-brimstone revivalist, he refuses to be rushed. Says he: "Up until the past year I felt more like a cheerleader than a choral director. Dawgonnit! I don't feel...