Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...match was a league affair played on the Soldiers Field courts...
...varsity tennis team hopes to win a 5 to 4 game for a change when it goes against Dartmouth at 3:45 p.m. this afternoon in a league affair on the Soldiers Field courts...
White Monday. But by Monday, all is well. Yvonne has had an affair with a floozy named Gwen and has thereby lost her anti-botanical prejudices. Marcia has gone back to the call-house where she belongs. Paul is in a hospital, sadder and wiser. And Character Wylie's cancer turns out to be just a "rare lymphatic growth...
...Torment" is the story of an 18 or 19 year old schoolboy who falls in love with a shopgirl of poor reputation. Their love brings about her regeneration as well as much happiness to them both. Unfortunately, the girl has been having an affair with a sadistic school teacher who has been regularly getting her drunk and subjecting her to the sort of depravities the demented, educated mind dreams up. Between tormenting the girl at night, and the classroom torment he gives the body during the day, the schoolteacher causes one death and one near-ruin among the young couple...
...usual film standards, could be said to drag at times. However, the producers deserve commendations for not playing up the sensational elements offered in the plot (leaving that, it would seem, to the able American press agents). "Torment" is the first intelligent filming of a non-idyllic adolescent love affair, I've seen...