Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maryknollers as its shock troops (the latest field: Africa, opened this year and already invaded by four Maryknoll priests). Asia, and particularly China, where the men of Maryknoll have preached, doctored and taught, has been their No. 1 field. There, deep in the Japanese war zone, Maryknoll missionaries stuck to their posts, filled the files of their order (only 35 years old last April) with accounts of adventure and heroism. Many wound up in Japanese prison camps...
That's easy. Hoffenstein's get-nowhere say nothing script condemns the picture from the start. The potential comedy in a story about a maid with a yen for fixing plumbing and an over-frank manner in the presence of superiors gets stuck in an under brush of plot complications. Given this bad material to work with, Lubitsch has made the worst of it. He has miscast both Miss Jones and Boyer in light comedy parts, and his attempts at satirizing English high-life seem ponderous, especially when handled by Peter Lawford and Helen Walker. Add to this a further...
...world, with mother as its center. Life is uncomplicated, in balance. Anxious to help and to please, he shuns pioneering, keeps his mother posted on his doings. Five likes to sleep eleven hours, eat plain food, ride tricycles, copy numbers and designs, wash himself (but he often gets stuck, scrubbing the same knee over & over unless mother helps...
Harry Truman had been President only a few days when he was rubbed the wrong way by a time-honored White House custom: he got stuck between floors in its creaky elevator. Ever since Theodore Roosevelt had it installed in 1902 (his rollicking sons used it to haul their patient pony Algonquin to & from their quarters). U.S. Presidents had frequently been stalled in the ornate mirrored and oak-paneled cage. The only power a President had in that emergency was to ring a gong, then wait while workmen hurried to the basement and jiggled the rachitic machinery back into motion...
...principle*made it all easy. In the hippo's tank they rigged up a contraption consisting of a hollow tube (stuck vertically in the water) enclosing a float attached to a moving arm arranged to swing around a marked scale. (On the basis of Archimedes' principle, the markings had been calibrated to register the weight of the water displaced, easily calculated from water's known weight by volume...