Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mixture of tough talk and greeting-card sentiment, Fallen Angel includes a bogus clairvoyant (John Carradine), a church organist (Alice Faye) and a pair of underprivileged lovebirds (Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews). In the resulting tangle, everyone is left to act pretty much for himself. The lovebirds come out best. Dana Andrews is a fallen angel with a mouthful of romantic talk and an eye for the main chance. Linda Darnell is Stella, a sulkily beautiful hash slinger who is weary of driving men to madness rather than to matrimony...
BLACK METROPOLIS-St. Clair Drake & Horace R. Cayton-Harcourt, Brace $5). In the same sort of cool, clinical case history in which Robert and Helen Lynd dissected the U.S. small town in Middletown, Anthropologist Drake and Sociologist Cayton have card-indexed the manners, mores and living conditions of the U.S. Negro in a northern city. Because of the tragic, potentially explosive material with which it deals, Black Metropolis is more engrossing, and may be more important, than the Lynds' book. Educators, politicians, ordinary thoughtful citizens- and perhaps even a few Southern Senators -may find in this well-organized, well...
Rounding out an already full sports card, the cross-country team will encounter both Northeastern and Worcester Polytech in a triangular meet on the 3.7 mile Charles River...
...wangled Roy Cullenbine from Cleveland, laid it on the line in a single pep talk and got him squared away to the business of banging 17 homers (third highest in the league) and batting in 89 runs (second highest). And O'Neill had long since named his trump card by plucking veteran Catcher Paul Richards from the minors to handle Pitchers Newhouser and Trout (40 victories this year, a record 56 last year...
...Traxler also discusses the Anecdotal Record. (These are cards that the teacher fills out when Junior spills an inkwell or seems emotionally disturbed. The teacher then turns the card over to the Guidance Officer.) Dr. Traxler quotes an example of a poorly filled-out Anecdotal Record...