Word: stumblebum
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...Teddy Roosevelt (and leads a spirited charge up San Juan Hill every time he gallops upstairs), while Orson Bean managed to bring fresh good humor to the part of the only sane member of the zany Brewster family. Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff made a satisfying pair of stumblebum villains. Few TV revivals of old Broadway plays have come off as entertainingly and inventively as Arsenic and Old Lace...
...Phillies had begun the season like their stumblebum predecessors by losing 24 times in 32 games. Their new manager, onetime Yankee Ben Chapman, tried everything: he forbade any player even to mention the word cellar, fired three veterans on the team who couldn't shake off that old Philly feeling. His toughest self-assignment: patting pitchers on the back when they got knocked out of the box. Ben Chapman himself had changed since he got kicked out of organized baseball for a year three years ago for slugging an umpire...
...candidate was given a pile of construction material. With the help of two assistants, he was to complete a structure within ten minutes. The two "helpers" were stumblebum stooges, master tacticians at noncooperation and delay. What the psychiatrists wanted to see: how the candidate reacted to frustration...
...which usually approaches Congress with the dread of a stumblebum fighter who knows he must take the count before he gets paid off, had surprisingly good luck last week. The House gave it $58,000,000 - $20,000,000 more than last year. This minor miracle was wrought after five members of the powerful and cautious Appropriations Committee made a sur prise visit to OWI's nine-story Overseas Division in Manhattan. The skeptical Congressmen went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity...
...have Lana Turner and Clarke Gable in the same picture, with a big battle on the Bataan peninsula to go with it, and Turner and Gable clinch more often in two hours than two stumblebum pugs in a six-round fight, MGM thinks you have something. And so does the audience...