Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from home to limousine to Stork Club, etc. If they want to look as if they were going to a Civil War anniversary party, that may be all right, but for the vast majority, including professionals, white-collarites and other moneygrubbers, these padded hips and four-yards-around-the-base balloon skirts will not fit into tiny apartment kitchens where the coffee and toast are rustled up each morning before the mad dash to the office begins...
...bandsmen are reportedly guarding their big base drum in an unspecified hideout, anticipating a possible Terrier assault, and bagpiper Leigh Cross '51 was practising assiduously as rumors of a B. U. piper filtered in to the Paine Music Building last night...
...Retreads. Brooklyn's fatherly Manager Burt Shotton, 62, is a man who had known failures too. A few years ago, hot-tempered fans booed his third-base coaching at Cleveland. He and Bucky had both sunk as low as anyone could in the big leagues: both had suffered as managers of the lowly Philadelphia Phillies. Both had been demoted to the minors and then bounced back. Burt's workaday formula is the same as Bucky's. Says Burt: "When a guy does something wrong, that's no time to get on him. That...
...seem captious. There could be no objections to parts of the movie. The songs are pretty, Newcomer Janet Leigh is pretty to look at and there are some rather pretty bits of deep-country detail (e.g., hustling the hay in ahead of a storm). But Rosy Ridge attempts to base its romance on authentic and charming Americana. The job requires more than prettiness and benevolent patriotism. Faces, hands, clothes and postures need to suggest hard work, real life and a certain tension of character, rather than mere magazine illustration. Most of Rosy Ridge's pleasant details are little more...
...student domestic affairs commission heads will work to encourage strong and useful student governing bodies-not only for the practical political experience they provide but to solidify the NSA structure at its very base. They must tread softly; the method at the outset may well be a fact-finding survey showing the state of student self-rule across the nation. A more peppery issue: that of "student rights" to free expression and free enterprise in behalf of political belief (no matter how unpopular at the hour). The NSA uncompromisingly supported the right of such groups as AYD to exist with...