Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minor read agents, a New Yorker, presented a note to the teller at the 43rd St. Merchants' Trust Bank saying, "This is a stick-up. Pass over all your cash and no one will get hurt." The teller was indeed stuck-up--insufferably so. She hardly glanced at the poor wretch, but replied, "Well, you must have that O.K.ed by an officer." Then she left her cage, walked to a guard and gave the rascal in charge. After searching him, finding neither weapons nor money, the guards threw him out of the bank. "We thought he was a bum," they...
After a shaky start on last year's show, Donn Fischer's direction is imaginative and professional. None of the songs seem stuck into an irrelevant plot, and no one fronts and centers to sing them. The show flows from opening to finale. Stark Hesseltine's production is, of course, very good, and the costume committee, headed by Jill Howard, can well share credit for the glossy exterior of the show. Tony Herrey's sets also contributed greatly. They were bright and simple, and the theatre marquee, in particular, showed an intelligent use of the Pudding's limited space...
...Meyer, Secretary of War ... As the agenda for the day was to include rock climbing, which in the past had done damage to his sensitive scholar's hands, Jusserand had decided to wear gloves. When the quartette was nuded . . . he couldn't get them off. They were stuck on by his blood. He was proud to recall that when the President himself shouted through his teeth, "Mr. Ambassador, why your gloves?" he was inspired to reply, "I thought we might meet ladies...
Roof Saver. To cut down losses such as occurred at General Motors Livonia plant fire (TIME, Aug. 24), Cleveland's Lexsuco, Inc. brought out a vinyl plastic roofing material, which will char, but not burn. The plastic replaces layers of felt, stuck together with asphalt, which separate the roof deck from its insulation. It was the melting asphalt that intensified the fire at Livonia when it fell into the flames. Cost is no higher than standard roof construction. First customer: Ford Motor Co., for an addition to its Cleveland engine plant...
...portray a fumbling, pompous psychiatrist and decided to mouth his words and wave his hands--the wrong choice for any role. Golden, to the contrary, had two perfectly adequate portrayals at his command. Unable to decide between them, he used both, thus destroying the merits of each. Had he stuck to his first inclination to show Belcredi as a serious man working hard at a studied foppery he would have succeeded admirably. But he continually interjected another character--that of a bored and pouting aristocrat whose chief occupation was making little moues of disdain, anger, and hurt pride. The remaining...