Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ailing Madeleine Force Astor Dick, second wife of the late John Jacob Astor, arrived in Manhattan from Bermuda. She refused to discuss her engagement to Italian Enzo Fiermonte, onetime boxing instructor to her sons, who fortnight ago accused Vincent Astor, Mrs. Dick's stepson and President Roosevelt's good friend, of using "influence" to keep him out of Bermuda and the U. S. Indignant Edith Searle, Mrs. Dick's English secretary, told newshawks: "What a hungry mob of vultures you are! What dirty dogs! What torturers and persecutors!" Still suffering from a broken arm incurred two months...
...Warner). The problems that confront Coach Gore (Pat O'Brien) in this picture-an attempt to buy real estate and sell it to Calvert College for a new stadium; the interest Mrs. Gore (Ann Dvorak) shows in a ringer halfback; the resentment of Calvert's best player (Dick Powell) when he gets passing marks he does not deserve -are far more interesting than the locker-room orations and kindergarten campus antics with which Hollywood usually pays its respects to football every autumn. The picture fits less into the category of a juvenile sporting print than into the group...
Metropolitan--"Footlight Parade." James Cagney, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, and Joan Blondell in a repitition of "Forty-Second Street...
...starts with Kilcullen and Clare Curtin, both big, experienced tackles, and he can fall back on Bob "Tiger" Taylor and Sid Stein, a pair of mammoth Sophomores. At guards he has veterans Ed Nichols and Jimmy DeAngelis, both speedy, a distinct advantage in the Eli attack. Webb Davis, Dick Crampton, and Ben Grosscup leave the Eli coach well equipped with guard material. At center there is Vic Malin, 240-pound Senior, who has seen service all through college, and he is backed up by Dick Barr, pivot on last year's yearlings...
...Besides these four, the Blue is also blessed with a good crop of Sophomore backs. Tommy Curtin and Jerry Roscoe shape up unusually well, while Dick Cummins and Kim Whitehead, also 1936, combine with Mal Watson, Sid Towle, Earl Nikkel, and Danny Lynch to round out a fairly large backfield squad." TIME...