Word: bulldogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge "Night and Day" by this scene alone. The rest of it isn't on quite as high a level. From the opening on the Yale campus with Grant conducting the bulldog song to the end in the Yale Chapel when the Glee Club sings "Night and Day" hymn-like, while Grant and Miss Smith reunite under the trees, the picture is a model of inanity and dullness. The one cause for thanks is that nobody let the Warner Brothers in on the fact that Porter studied music at Harvard...
This British tendency of exaggerating hardships is not new. One of Eric Knight's characters, a Yorkshire Communist, once boasted: "That's what makes us great. We're the bulldog breed proletarians. . . . For us can stand more downtreading than any other proletarians in t'world...
Lean and leisurely John Tinney McCutcheon was crowding his deadline. His mind and drawing board were blank, and the bulldog edition over at the Chicago Tribune would wait just so long. Outside his studio window, there was a promise of fall in the hazy September air. He fell to daydreaming . . . on such a smoky afternoon, back home in Indiana, a boy might gaze at a cornfield studded with tattered golden shocks, and see them turn into Indian tepees. Idly he began to sketch. When the Tribune messenger arrived, he had finished his greatest cartoon. That was 39 years...
...half mile was taken by John Edel-man with a time of 2:1.2, with Bernie O'Brien just nosing out Yale's Bill Goedecke for the second. The mile was another of the Bulldog's scarce firsts, being won by Francis Martin in 4:47. Dave Groshong came in second...
Safe Investment. In the 19103 a $9,000 Western was a major production. Even in the '203 cowboys would take a fall for a dollar and bulldog a rider off a running horse for two. Today stunt men get $35 per fall, $100 more for tougher stunts, $250 for a high dive into a lake. The average Western cost $15,000 to $35,000 in the '303; today, rising costs have boomeranged this...