Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ralph C. Whitnack '38, rowing bow for the Bunnies, caught a terrific crab up toward Watertown and went clean over backwards into the dirty waters. Two passing crews rested on their oars to enjoy the sight...
Only three individual defeats in the whole season has sewed up matters for the Deacon racquetmen, with Lowell and Eliot trailing. A clean record in baseball, where Leverett and Eliot each have two losses, assures Kirkland of at least a tie for the circuit supremacy...
...against the show, threw it into receivership. Then, padding at Stranahan's heels, a delegation of McCoy's Sioux Redmen visited Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, threatened a sitdown strike against Tim McCoy unless he: 1) came through with back pay, 2) furnished more than one clean shirt a week, 3) provided free war paint. Sent back to the show by Collier, the Sioux refused to perform. In a big frontier-drama act where white men were supposed to make Indians bite the dust, for two performances there was not a Sioux Indian to bite...
...Puckish, jaunty, devil-may-care role of Robin Hood (1922). Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth. In the current cinema lithe, lanky Errol Flynn hits no home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Actor Flynn performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten...
With his first novel, Slim (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934), a story of the linemen who string high-voltage transmission lines, Author Haines, himself a lineman, made a clean jump from transmission poles to best-seller ranks and Hollywood. Though Slim seemed a little too slick for its subject, it nevertheless subordinated romance to accurate descriptions of a dramatic trade and the lusty linemen who follow it. High Tension, first published in the Saturday Evening Post, is wired for more popular tastes, reverses the proportions of romance and realism...