Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should do right well for himself, snarls his way through a ninety-minute career as the poor boy who goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from the ranks, but switched to the right side of the tracks via a stretch...
...except for the last-ditch try of a suitably cynical district attorney who comes through for law-and-order with a witness-stand confession. The picture is populated with Bogart's standard collection of pool-sharks, fifty-year old newsboys named "Junior," and punch-drunk bartenders, but the big star is the camera, which pokes behind garbage cans, into alleyways, and peers around the courtroom with far more than usual perception...
What is worrying him is the prospect of the Spring Trip--the terrifying, season-opening, four-game, vacation-time trip south to the Baltimore region--where lacrosse is really big-league--to play among others, Navy and Maryland. Last year Navy walloped the team, 13 to 3, and Maryland shut...
Rushing into his socks and shoelaces, he considered his shirt. It should be stimulating in view of the Big Day, and he fingered through the pile of pinks and yellows, No, what he needed was something else, and he put on a size 14, starched, button down--certainly stimulating and well nigh painful...
This pebble is as big as an Idaho potato, and one of the finest ever brought to light; A party of University geologists found it this summer while digging in eastern France...