Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Love got his team on the Charles two weeks earlier than last year. This was a break and he feels pretty good about his material in general. 'We're quite a bit farther along for the length of time we've spent this spring than we were after the same time spent...
Vagabond loosened his tie knot the least bit, threw away his cigarette. At the plate the coach hefted the fungo bat, swung through easily, and looped the ball to the leftfielder...
Other points of interest include Robert Young, who hasn't changed a bit since the picture was made, and the characterization, strange in this day of science-on-the-comic-pages, of engineers as earnest young men who scurry around in knee-breeches lugging a surveyor's transit under each arm. Young appears thoroughly crocked for the majority of the movie, which is no loss. It makes you appreciate Hepburn just so much more...
Murder Around the Tree. Most of the second half is a good deal less feminine and less successful. When Writer Bolton switches from memory to action, and from past to present, her pen seems to catch a bit of fuzz, her prose blurs a little, and the feelings of the son, his ex-wife and her new husband fog up. And her last-minute attempt to knit the son's tragedy to the world situation is a piece of synthetic, Freudian chop-logic as far-fetched as saying that a tug on an umbilical cord will ultimately release...
Soloists, orchestra, and all 300 members of the Glee Club and Choral Society deserved every bit of it. They did everything that Koussevitzky told them to do, and since he was the boss, that is the highest praise they could be given...