Word: wheelchairs
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...also shoved the cameraman around in a wheelchair and packed him into a post man's mail cart (with peepholes drilled in the sides) to follow the actors as they wandered the streets...
...baby jests around a papa joke, and that drive a rachitic bit of plot literally to the graveyard. David Wayne is a fervent hypochondriac who, listening in on his doctor's phone call about a doomed patient, concludes it is he who is doomed and makes wheelchair preparations for dying, death and burial. When this misunderstanding is cleared up, a new misunderstanding is quickly brewed: now Nancy Olson, Wayne's pretty wife, decides that all the wheelchair stuff was just a gimmick to cover up a love affair...
Skillfully selected and edited, the series' opener traced both Churchill and his country through the years that bridged the wars, from bursting shells among the trenches of 1918 to the first aerial bombardments of 1940. One fine vignette followed another: Churchill sitting in a wheelchair in Manhattan, bandages on his nose and forehead, after an automobile nearly ended his life on Fifth Avenue in 1931; Hitler barking Sieg, Sieg, in antiphony with the full-throated Heils of massed Germans; the odd and sinister British-Nazi faction of Sir Oswald Mosley goose-stepping in Hyde Park; the garden walls hand...
After many a summer came the swan song of Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, 75. Retiring after 25 years in the Senate, conscientious Joe O'Mahoney, who suffered a stroke last year, came onto the floor in a wheelchair to introduce a bill regulating insurance rates. Speaking at the length that had earned him the title of "the most de liberative member of the world's most deliberative body," O'Mahoney referred only once to his leavetaking: "I regret that I shall not be a member of the Senate next year when...
...take Sternberg's aged parents to dinner almost nightly; the wife of another was pressed into service to supply a home-cooked turkey "whenever the Sternbergs craved fowl." Once Sternberg dropped the hint to one seller that he should assign an employee to push his father's wheelchair. Sternberg's total take: an estimated quarter of a million...