Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abilities further. She played her nth round of golf for their benefit, amazed them afresh by averaging more than 200 yd. with her drives, scoring under 90. When it was established that Babe Didrikson is also an expert swimmer, basketball player, baseball pitcher, football halfback, a proficient billiardist, a clever tumbler, a boxer and wrestler, a fencer, weight lifter and adagio dancer, she could only be described by appalled reporters as a "wonder girl." Last week, Wonder Girl Didrikson had cause for wonderment herself. The Amateur Athletic Union suspended her from amateur competition in the U. S. and then promised...
...Everything's Rosy," O. Soglow of New Yorker fame has made clever use of the physical device of color filtering. It is no new invention; it has been used in color printing for twenty years, and during the war Germany used it to disguise identification numbers on aeroplanes; but its use for humor is entirely original...
Completely untried but showing much promise on paper, the CRIMSON Varsity stickmen will meet their first test of a long 13-game season this evening in the Boston Garden, when Coach Stubbs will send his carefully trained outfit on the ice to oppose a clever, fast skating sextet from M.I.T. Although the squad has had only eight practice sessions since candidates were called on November 29, the 21 men retained on the squad include eight returning lettermen and six promising skaters from last year's Freshman team. The Engineer's were overcome by Princeton 3-1 last Saturday...
...higgledy-piggledy contests of gangling schoolboys. Professionals are almost always huge (an exception is Boston Braves' 167-lb. Center Tony Siano) but they do not lumber awkwardly like most huge college players. They must be light-footed, quick as eels, dextrous as jugglers. Professional line-play is clever, titanic and almost always evenly matched. Backfields use complex maneuvers which require split-second timing and the accuracy of basketballers in passing. Lateral passes develop from forwards, forwards from laterals, spinners and reverses have complications impossible and unnecessary for amateur teams. There are few long end runs because professional ends...
...Million (Paramount) develops an obvious idea in an obvious way. Since the obvious idea is one which cinema producers have overlooked, and since it is handled with skill and enthusiasm, If I Had a Million gives the impression of being a startlingly original picture as well as clever and interesting. John Glidden (Richard Bennett) is a crusty millionaire, infuriated by the avarice and incompetence of the persons who expect to inherit his money. Instead of making a will he decides to distribute his fortune, $1,000,000 at a time, to persons selected at random from the telephone directory...