Word: knee-deep
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...last week puttering George Stimpson, who never learned how to make his wealth of contacts pay off in fame, was knee-deep in good luck. His factmongering had hit the jackpot: the Book-of-the-Month Club had picked up his Book about a Thousand Things (Harper; $3.50), a random selection snatched from his disheveled files, and he stood to make $50,000 from it. (Last year his Book about the Bible, a similar sampling from his "B" files, surprised its publisher-and its author-by selling 30,000 copies.) Mildly bewildered, Bachelor George Stimpson muttered...
...Sunset Towers in Los Angeles. Then, backed by Chicago's sewer contractor Steve Healy, he bought Chicago's 3,000-room Stevens from the Army. (The Stevens, too, was subsequently sold.) But Kirkeby's biggest splash was the Hampshire House, ankle-deep in carpeting, knee-deep in income...
...service in Britain will be grateful for British Producer-Director Herbert Wilcox's sympathetic understanding-until it becomes white-hot and knee-deep. Yank starts off well, but eventually a plain, ordinary guy from Arizona (well played by Cinemactor Dean Jagger) is hobnobbing with a Duke (Robert Morley), visiting the ducal estate, making eyes at the Duke's granddaughter (Anna Neagle). The girl falls head over heels in love with the Yank sergeant, decides to marry him instead of a suave, handsome British officer (Rex Harrison). The Duke smiles on the match. In the end, only the fortunes...
French sculptor Apelles Fenosa set out to tell, with one human figure, the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane. He molded a statue of a woman knee-deep in fire; her throat seemed to swell with a scream; her arms were lifted. Fenosa's Oradour will shortly be placed in a square in Limoges-the town near Oradour's seared site...
...minutes after Masquerade begins, idealistic cabaret Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour finds herself in Mexico City, knee-deep in a diamond theft, and falling in love with Patric Knowles. As a sort of cushion-shot to win his venomous wife (Ann Dvorak) back from her bullfighting Mexican lover (Arturo de Cordova), Knowles helps Dorothy masquerade as a Countess and gives her plenty of opportunity for song and romance with the bullfighter on the flower-strewn waters of Lake Xochimilco...