Word: clinkers
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...course of Merrily We Live is always breezy but never aimless is due partly to its Morrie Ryskind-Eric Hatch (My Man Godfrey) pattern, more particularly to the craft of Director Norman McLeod, whose technique of making every character seem important in neatly overlapped situations makes for speedy, clinker-built comedy. A minister's son, handsome, six-foot, 39-year-old Norman McLeod left Oxford to become a World War aviator, left Europe to become an assistant director on Christie comedies. In Hollywood he drew cartoons (as decorations for subtitles), became so proficient with his wiry, single-line caricatures...
...burying itself in the sand. For several days they charged admission to see the rarity, but their profitmaking was cut short when the stone was sent to Harvard to be analyzed. Experts were puzzled at first, but their bewilderment was short-lived. The "meteor" was nothing more than a clinker from a furnace...
...April and the twenty-first of June the College will witness or take part in 146 athletic events assures the restless undergraduate that there will be no lack of activity for the next few months. And for the more domestically inclined the golf ball will shortly replace the clinker as seasonal big game. In a word, physical will soon supersede intellectual exertion...
...doubt if it was difficult to decide in 1770 whether "Humphrey Clinker" was a greater masterpiece than "Pamela" and whether "the Sentimental Journey" would outlive "Roderick Random". But today matters are infinitely more complicated by the hundreds of best sellers advertised in the book supplements and the far greater number of others each termed by some one the book of the hour...
...subject of Mr. Copeland's fourth lecture-to be given in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock this evening-is Tobias Smollett, author of "Roderick Random," "Peregrine Pickle," and "Humphrey Clinker." The lecture will be part biography, part criticism. In the treatment of Smollet's work, his novels will be discussed not only in themselves, but in their degree of contrast to the novels of Fielding and Thackeray, and their degree of likeness to those of Dickens...