Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After a bit the trooper came back. "He says, 'Go in and get them. The warden will have to take his chances...
...from dropping him. Deft adaptation and direction by George Abbott make the little story pleasant up to this point, and the tenth-of-a-second shot of what the acrobat does next welds it into drama. Its drawbacks are Buddy Rogers' continuous ingenuousness, occasional flat lines, overacting by the "bit" characters, and the fact that its central situation is frankly appropriated from the great German film Variety. A good shot: pretty, wiry Jean Arthur in a silk afternoon gown doing a stunt on the trapeze...
Themes such as death and the beginning of life give Mr. Powys occasion for no mean bit of modern metaphysics. A few of the titles. "The Withered Leaf and the Green" and "The Corpse and the Flea" suggest very much John Donne. At the same time this present-day Aesop keeps his faith with Donne in little thrusts of realism that actually make the reader shudder. All this, as said before, is quite smart: and yet almost as everyday as the "Farmer's Almanac...
...Then with only five men on the ice the Crimson drew first blood when Wood, taking the puck on a rebound after a shot by Lakin, sent it past Grodberg. After the second forward line had replaced the starting trio Harvard scored again, this time on a nice bit of teamwork. Stubbs came flying down the ice, turned, flipped the puck to Cross and the Crimson left wing poked it into the net, with the game little more than six minutes old. Harvard chalked up another two minutes later when Putnam gave Wood a pass and a chance to make...
Harvard's play after the first period was a bit off-color, the offense failing to click because of lack of team work. Most of the playing was individual with Putnam and Cunningham bearing the burden of it. Garrison, playing his first game at defence also contributed several neat plays. The goalie situation however advanced no farther because the B. U. forwards were practically unable to break through and give Harvard's net-tenders a fair test. Ellis played the first and third periods and Draper relieved him during the second stanza. Both of them had so few opportunities, however...