Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turns in as good a performance or better as Thomas Jefferson Destry. Marlene Dietrich, as Frenchy, the bad girl of the Last Chance saloon, turns in her best performance since the somewhat similar role in The Blue Angel brought her to Hollywood. To the thrilling question-could Dietrich come back via the western trail?-her bottle-tossing, eye-rolling and shoulder-shrugging, her singing (in a whiskey mezzo) of Little Joe and The Boys in the Backroom supplied the answer. Dietrich has. She makes it dazzlingly clear that the Dietrich legs, once more unsheathed, will still be taking her places...
...spring Pinehurst, Asheville, Hot Springs-guests of hotel managements that occasionally offer more attractive bait for players than mere traveling expenses and $30-a-day suites. Some tournament promoters have been known to offer lump-sum traveling expenses that could take the player to Buenos Aires and back. Now & then a well-heeled promoter has even been known to get around the amateur code by making a friendly little wager-for instance, a $500 bet that the player cannot jump over his tennis racket...
Their first regular game is with Belmont Hill on Tuesday night. Belmont has many regular back, and the game promises to be a close...
After less than three weeks of married life, Fredrick V. Suits 1L, whose wedding was held up when Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, would not discharge him from Stillman Infirmary, is back at the scene of his troubles...
Suits left Stillman to get married and "to do some law". Yesterday he was ordered back to Stillman by the Hygiene Department for another rest...