Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot faces Lowell in another game today. The Elephants have a flashy backfield of T operatives and a big line which pummeled Leverett 26-6. Lowell has some capable backs and an equally heavy line, but they didn't click as a team against Adams. Eliot will be favored to Jcia. Winthrop in the "two straight" ranks...
...Moreton, 42, earns $80 a week editing the house organ of a big company, reads good books, listens to good music on the radio, and has lately begun to think aloud. His wife Peggy, 41, is a trim little Irish woman whose scruples about birth control have lately begun to complicate their marriage. His children, a daughter 18 and a son 16, are a smart, self-possessed pair of youngsters who answer respectfully when he speaks to them, make moderated replies to his bitter wisecracks, and seem to him to have recently become large, mature and strange...
...first day at school, and after his First Communion was sick as soon as he got back to his pew. When the little girl around the corner told him that Butch O'Hara had tried to kiss her, Joe said, "Somebody's gonna teach that big dope a lesson." She told Butch. The next time Joe saw Butch, Butch began to beat him up. But something strange happened: another boy got mixed up in the fight and the next Joe heard about it, Butch was in the hospital with a kick in the groin. Everyone thought...
...real estate, autos (he has the General Motors franchise on Hawaii), movie theaters (he owns ten) and utilities (he is president and principal stockholder of Hilo Electric Light Co., Ltd.). When Hill's wife started shipping a few orchids from her garden to the U.S., Dible suggested the big commercial possibilities...
This disunity can be funny just as most slapstick comedy can be funny. Ivy Films have borrowed the Keystone Cop chase and the little circus car which spits out a steady stream of big men. It also means that the audience cannot sit back and chew popcorn and know what is coming off. They may even have to puzzle things out with Ivy Film's program. But this reviewer feels there is plenty of room for motion pictures which people have to sit up and watch...