Word: chris
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tricky attack that the Crimson forces expect the Army to launch on Saturday, led by a diminutive Cadet named "Monk" Meyer. A triple-threater that seems destined to leave a record comparable to his famous predecessors Chris Cagle and Jack Buckler, Meyer began his meteorick career when he was substituted in the Harvard game last fall. Since then, he has kicked, passed, and run his way into the respect of every team he has faced...
...mishaps of one Christopher Freyman (Jean Hersholt), bell ringer in the Tyrolean town of Zanebruck. Christopher's wife dies, his younger son is deaf & dumb, his elder son gets killed in a plane crash, Zanebruck is wiped out by a war bombardment and, by 1935, poor old Chris is no more than a Manhattan bottle-washer. His deaf son, cured by the roar of guns, then turns out to be a great composer, recognizable to his sire by a symphony, The Cathedral Most lugubrious shot: Chris and a friend (Allen Jenkins) making the jeering louts in a Bowery flophouse...
...Noel ("Chris") Arden was a big, heavy- shouldered young man with a capable pair of surgeon's hands and three years' interneship behind him. When he set up practice for himself, waited for patients to come, it seemed a long wait. The family in whose house he boarded and had his office were a no-account lot. Beverly, pretty heiress of the town's tycoon, brought Chris his first patient-her dog. She and Chris quarrelled and fell in love immediately. Chris was too proud and poor to do anything about it, but Beverly wangled...
Things seemed to be breaking right for Chris till he had a row with Beverly's father, then a row with Beverly. She went abroad, got herself engaged to the wrong man. After her marriage Chris tried to drown himself in work. He went abroad for a few months' study in Vienna, marrying Katie and taking her along, not because he wanted her but because she nagged him into it. She soon got tired of him, and he was glad to leave her for the War. Back home again, he became a hardworking, successful surgeon, an aging Spartan...
Unluckily for Chris's simple Q.E.D., Anne's true love landed just after Chris had sailed. The letter that told him what she had not been able to met him in Manhattan, made him jump ship there and stow away on the first liner he could find. His will to get back to Anne was strong enough to survive a shipwreck in mid-Atlantic, but not omnipotent enough to keep his wife from running away with a more compelling...