Word: biff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday Afternoon (by James Hagan; Leo Peters & Leslie J. Spiller, producers). Here is a play sure in its unpretentious telling of a wholesome, sometimes humorous, sometimes moving story. A frieze of homely figures on a Mid-western ground, One Sunday Afternoon opens in the shabby dental parlor of Biff Grimes. D. D. S. (Lloyd Nolan, an able new-comer). Stimulated by an old crony, a bottle of rye and innumerable repetitions of "in the good old summer time." Biff's imagination reaches sadly back to his youth in another little town. Nostalgia gives way to intemperate anger when...
...Biff really wanted to marry Virginia. His chances looked good for a while until Hugo swept her off her feet in Schneider's beer garden. On the rebound, inarticulate, dazed Biff married Amy (Francesca Bruning). Followed a row with Hugo in Hugo's uncle's factory and a two-year jail term for Biff...
When lie got out. he and Amy moved away. Amy was good to him. They lived comfortably. And yet, a still small voice kept telling Biff, if he had married Virginia, somehow life would not have been quite so mediocre...
...Biff does not kill Hugo. Virginia, whose hair has grown blonde and her tongue sharp, grudgingly comes to watch her husband lose another cuspid. So grateful is Biff for the relief of his disillusionment that he does not charge Hugo a cent for the extraction. He dismisses the quarreling couple, picks up his faithful Amy. tells her she has the best legs in town, decides...
...regulations of the game at that time. Up until the war, 13 games took place between the two institutions, all of which were won by teams from Cambridge. Following the war, no games were played until two years ago, when an Army team of the new regime of Biff Jones and the great Cagle shut out Harvard...