Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Mellon rounded off his long program of Liberty Loan refinancings like a golfer who, having made par or better at almost all previous holes, encounters trouble at the final hole and has to accept a large figure to complete an otherwise happy scorecard...
...lightweight instead of the usual heavyweight. He is not a facsimile of Benny Leonard, Sammy Mandell or any other celebrity. He is simply Bobby Murray, a type instead of a borrowed headline. Actor Richard Taber makes the part into a distinct, albeit dull personality. Actor John Meehan does even better, much better, as Peter Murray, iron-grey manager-father...
Romance is braided into the plot, not too skillfully. The better moments are those in which reporters are talking about their jobs and their women, or pictured in their drinking or drunken moments. Of the reporters, Hugh O'Connell, who carried the green and flabby reporter's bible across the stage in The Racket does the best drinking while John Cromwell hands in a properly languid sketch of the cheerless, sardonic Wick Snell, who knows his business well enough to have an even more thorough detestation of the activities it reports. There was observed also in the play...
Would the postponement make the choice easier for the all-powerful selection committee? Would the U. S. be the gainer by the delay? Or would the veteran Argentine combination win the advantage of additional practice, better acclimatization...
...better to study enigmatic reptile nature, the Sahib kept a cobra under glass, until he found he was losing caste with the natives for imprisoning a god. And throughout his Indian sojourn he learned to understand that reverence for the almighty cobra. One night he was wakened by an unearthly din; his terrified dog crept under the mosquito netting with him. In a pool of moonlight a family of cats fought with a host of rats: danse macabre to the rhythm of warlike squeaks and terrific meows: Then sudden silence. A glistening cobra had glided out of the gloom. Glassy...