Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chase (Nebenzal-United Artists) never runs quite fast enough to catch up with its good thriller beginning. A broke and hungry ex-G.I. (Robert Cummings) finds a bill-heavy pocketbook on a Miami sidewalk and returns the lost property to its gangster owner (Steve Cochran). Highly amused by such "stupid" honesty, the gangster and his henchman (Peter Lorre) give Cummings a job as chauffeur...
...Stamford Raffles reached London with little more than the clothes he wore. At East India House, the Company directors handed the creator of Singapore a bill for expenses amounting to ?22,000. A few days later, on the morning of his 45th birthday, Raffles was found at the foot of his staircase, dead of apoplexy. Said the physician in his report: "The sufferings of the deceased must, for some time past, have been most intense...
Dave Farrell, Bill Fitz, and various combinations and permutations thereof were just a little too much for the sailors. The two players hit pay-dirt twice on their own. In the opening minutes of play the Chief Boston equivalent of Tinker to Evers was uncorked for the first tally. Bucky Harrison's cold toe failed to convert, but it warmed to its work on the next three...
...Farrell patiently waited until he got his hands on the pigskin once more, and taking a significant part in the down-field march, plunged over from the 25-yard stripe on a neat guard trap. To conclude the half, Tom Mosely pitched a neat aerial to end Bill Fitz to give the Crimson a 20 point lead...
...first half the play was about even between the two teams, the turning point coming early in the third period when Johnny Spivak booted in the first goal for the Crimson. Shortly thereafter the Bruins failed to cash in on a penalty kick, and lost the game irreparably when Bill Gilbert banged in the second goal for the Yardlings...