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Employing the crouch start exclusively, as well as a flying wedge for running interference, the Plympton Street team wrestled its way around the dusty bases in one frantic inning after another. It was finally necessary for the Lampoon players to purloin one of the bases in order to end the game with a triple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newspapermen Pile Up Customary 23-2 Lead Over Funning Bagsters as Stellar Game Is Called on Account of Darkness | 5/18/1932 | See Source »

...sanity. The simple burlesque business that Mr. Clark knows best consists chiefly in manhandling a cigar, shooting people with a trick cane equipped with a rubber-tube to blow smoke through, ogling all pretty girls through spectacles painted on his face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this Mr. Clark has done many times before with success. Bad press notices and the lack of any outstand ing talent other than Clark & McCullough put Here Goes the Bride into the past tense. But you will still hear dance bands playing some of the show's earful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Judge Leonard Callender Crouch, Syracuse . . . LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

Banditry, which seemed to crouch quiet like a startled beast after Nicaragua's earthquake (TIME, April 13), sprang again last week. Possibly the No. 1 bandit, General Augusto Sandino, who had voluntarily announced suspension of hostilities, was not to blame. But on Nicaragua's east coast bandits of some sort killed U. S. Marine Captain Harlem Pefley, Lieut. Darrah and Sergeant Taylor at Logtown, surrounded another Marine detachment from the U. S. cruiser Asheville (rumor said 25 Marines were killed), caused the U. S. cruiser Memphis to dash over from Guantanamo Bay with a rescue force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Man after Nature | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

EUGENE M. CROUCH New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Only a Voice | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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