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Willetts at left wing, George Duane at center, and Stacy Hulse on the right wing, compose Hodder's first forward line. The second is at present composed of Caleb Loring, Gordie McGrath, and Bill Claflin, George Dreher, Dick Noone, and Demi Lloyd, will probably combine to form the third. Burgie Ayres, who has not had much practice because of his gridiron activities, may change those lineups later on, as Hodder is planning to use him to center one of the forward walls, but at present he needs conditioning...

Author: By John C. Buijard, | Title: GRADUATION, PROBATION ARE FELT AS HODDERMEN SHAPE UP | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...script is rather incpt patchwork, composed of three O'Ncill plays and a war background to fill the gaps. The action takes place aboard a British tramp steamer and in wet harbor streets infested with demi-monde and cops. All kinds of human fates are thrown together on the S.S. Glencairn, drifting about helplessly on the long voyage that seldom ends at home. John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, and Ian Hunter are three of the ragged, whisky-minded seafarers whose whole characters are unfolded step by step. There is frustration in all of them, the frustration that drove them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...inherited his father's passionate interest in "biology," he was taken to Uyeno Park Zoo one day last autumn. There he observed that the hippopotamus, unlike his toy hippo at home, was supplied with a tail; also (there being no one with the audacity to hinder his demi-divine will) he fed the sheep to satiety on small pieces of paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Son of Son of Sun | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Told in Edgar Hopkins' subdued commuter's style, this demi-Wellsian Downfall of the West packs a clammy warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moonstruck | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...first place, Radcliffe girls can't walk," the glamorous model murmured, as she sipped a demi-tasse, priced 25 cents, and got down to fundamentals. "Some of them are good models and some of them are not," she added significantly...

Author: By Charles L. Bigelow and Spencer Klaw, S | Title: Yale Men Best Gowned, States Dorothy Lord, Famous Stylist | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

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