Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FIGHTING AXGEL-Pearl Buck-Reynal & Hitchcock...
Against scenery by Sergei Soudeikine which looks vaguely edible, Forbidden Melody unfolds a tangled tale of intrigue and counter-intrigue revolving about the return of King Carol of Rumania to his throne. No one impersonating buck-toothed Carol appears, however, and there is no trace of his red-headed familiar, Magda Lupescu. Sample gag: "Will you pardon me?" "Why certainly-what have you done...
...madness, and it succeeds for one very good reason; Carole Lombard. As you sit there helplessly in your seat, dissolved in hilarity, you are likely to begin attributing your shameful condition to William Powell or to the drunk who wrote the lines. But it's no good passing the buck. The latter two factors contribute considerable shares, to be sure, but Carole's the crux of the excruciation. You may have seen her often before (she's been in pictures more years than she likes to count), and never liked her at all. As a society belle with enough sense...
Kirkland came right back with a 30-yard pass from George T. Cushman '37 to Richard H. Wills, Jr. '38, and a 15-yard penalty against Winthrop put the ball on the five-yard stripe. Cushman tallied on the third line buck, but the kick was blocked...
...hailing distance of the goal, and held for downs. It was a far cry from last year, when, at the end of a march that had carried them to the Crimson three yard line, Princeton chose to try a place kick on a last down, rather than attempt another buck through the line...