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...industry. When the railroads boost freight rates to force the farmers to sell out their oil lands, Peter and his friends start a pipe line to the refinery. The railroad's strong-arm gang, headed by Peter's loud-mouthed neighbor, Red Scanlon (Charles Bickford), tries to break the line, buy out the land it crosses. The conflict reaches its peak in a magnificent free-for-all when, racing to put down the last three miles of line before their contract expires, the oilmen farmers are attacked by Red's gang on a rock-bluff. Aided...
...went to the other extreme and rotted in Widener during the holidays preparing for a make-up exam. Never do it. It dries the skin. One's eyes become dull and glazed, like prisoners' in Sing Sing. And one can't keep one's self respect, cating in Hayes Bickford or Lowell House...
...career. All his friends laughed at him Freshman year. They would go shooting out nights in tuxedoes and the boy would stay home. They would wolf highballs at the Ritz-fair and the boy would shut up his books at midnight and have a glass of milk at Hayes-Bickford...
...friends dropped away from him sophomore year. He roomed alone on the fifth floor of Dunster so he could have quiet. At Hayes-Bickford's he made friends with a student who commuted from Allston and he got to know well the Exchange Student from Lingnan in China. Nights the three of them would get together in his room and discuss Boethins. They had all read Boethius in the original and in the Middle English translation...
Wild Bill takes a new trail, following one Lattimer (Charles Bickford) the sinister agent of some grafting Cabinet members who hope to sell the Cheyennes repeating rifles left over from the Civil War. Best sequence in the picture comes when Wild Bill has killed Lattimer and rounded up his gang. To pass the time until the cavalry arrives he starts a poker game. The man behind the bar, a cringing knave outstandingly played by Porter Hall finds a gun in a drawer. It takes him half the sequence to get nerve enough to shoot Bill Hickok in the back. Finally...