Word: chases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ichabod Disney gets only one chance to exploit his special talents. The midnight chase through a clutching, echoing forest, with the gangling, lily-livered schoolmaster in full flight before the Headless Horseman, is a skillful blend of the hilarious and the horrible. It is Disney at his facile best. The rest of the story, dealing with quaint, legendary people, is flat and prosaic. Katrina might have popped out of a newspaper comic strip; Brom Bones looks like a Catskill country cousin of Li'l Abner...
What follows his escape is a mad chase on locomotives through the slumbering countryside, a scene with all the peculiar virtues of the Keystone Cops, the drawings of Punch's artist Emett, and Liza crossing...
...fund was established in 1913 by friends of Burr, an outstanding athlete, 'scholar, and student leader. Previous recipients have included John P. Chase '28, now coach of the hockey team, all-American Barry Wood '32, and Paul Knapluth '49, last year's crew captain...
Heads of the 1949-50 council committees will: Broward Craig '50, education; William L. Curwen '50, international activities; William D. Mulhelland. Jr. '50 and Richard M. Sandler '52, extra curricular activities: Unverferth and Albert B. Carter, Jr. '50 student welfare; Chase N. Peterson '53, freshman affairs; William S. Tyson '51, class affair; Henry M.Silveira Jr.'51, personnel; Richard T. Button '52, public relations; and Charles R. Brynteson '50, council constitution survey...
...killer's eyes or of the sickening sprawl of the corpse. The new brutality is streamlined. .White Heat is sprinkled with an improved type of wrist action in blackjacking, so effective that the camera does not even bother to examine the victim. The traditional movie chase, with its essentially simple machinery, has evolved into a studious, highly technical battle in which the combatants use telephones, oscillators, triangulation equipment and poker faces...