Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first shock wore off, Giant fans began to act like Communists the day after a switch in the party line. They grudgingly admitted that Leo would give the Giants a belligerent air. He might even breathe some fire into a club which hadn't known a man-sized blaze since the late great John J. McGraw left 16 years ago. Leo was the McGraw type-aggressive, hot-tempered, hell on umpires and a great tactician...
Capra made a few passes and presto! 1) much of Lindsay & Grouse's dialogue disappeared, and the cutting edge was flaked off; 2) the gadfly-buzz of the play's action slowed to a snore. To sustain the illusion of interest, Wonder-Worker Capra relied on a blaze of star-power: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Adolphe Menjou, Angela Lansbury. But Tracy, as in all his recent pictures, lacks fire; Hepburn's affectation of talking like a woman trying simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew...
Radcliffe pianist Mary DeQuedville Briggs '18 will blaze a 'Cliffe trail in the local music field when she gives her first recital in Paine Gall next Wednesday evening under the auspices of the University Music Department...
Divester of the Blue oarsmen was a $600 blaze started by a defective gas heater which was used to operate the drying apparatue...
Three hundred Freshmen swarmed around Matthews Hall early last night as firemen doused a small blaze in a second-floor lavatory. Damage was slight...