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...working overtime, the Lunts manage to scrape off some Behrman rust. They also enliven the evening with a series of vaudeville acts. Actor Lunt dances, does magician's tricks, fakes tightrope walking. Actress Fontanne goes into a trance, does half a striptease. Two other characters indulge in a crap game. In view of all this, perhaps a decent script would be an intrusion...
...hours exchanging stories, sneaking smokes, sizing up jobs and bumping noggins. A passing boat or plane apparently justifies time off to estimate cargo, judge tonnage and type, etc., etc. . . . Recently, having sighted no sparks from welding operations atop a gun platform, I investigated to find a six-man crap game in hot progress. Most explanations revert to a common basis: "We gotta wait for the other...
...gunnery student plunked in 45 out of a possible 200. At the toughest kind of firing, where ten in 200 is considered workmanlike, he had given an expert's performance. U.S. fellow students heard of it with respectful whistles. They also commended the Chinese ability in outdoor sports, crap shooting, hangar flying (bull sessions to college students...
...Moines with 24 inches of snow in 24 hours. It snapped telephone wires like twigs, stranded busses full of soldiers all over the State. One lot of a dozen was spilled out at the Sheldon-Munn Hotel at Ames, where the men established a comfortable bivouac, started a rousing crap game...
...minority, the Negro. The love story of the lame beggar, Porgy, and his sultry Bess is the main theme, which is surrounded with the life in Catfish Row, its joys and sorrows, its day to day gayety and the sudden tragedies springing from a storm at sea or a crap-game brawl. In the first scene the huge stevedore, Crown, with his blood on fire by liquor and the caresses of Bess, his woman, kills a man and then flees from the white man's justice leaving Bess to seek refuge with Porgy. Then comes one of the most mystic...