Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under My Skin"' and at least six others. Eleanor Powell sings, taps, and whirls with just about as much appeal as we could wish. Sid Silver and gangling Buddy Ebsen would brighten any show with their asinine antics. There are spots in the action that seem to drag a little, especially in some of the love scenes, but such carping criticism is really not justified in the face of the lively wit and music which make "Born to Dance" the fast-moving show...
...bouffe robbers. The boy grinds a hurdy-gurdy drawn by a mule while his mother and grandfather sing. When the robbers hide a stocking full of gold in the hurdy-gurdy, the fun starts. Unable to get at the booty, the robbers get the elders drunk, drag the hurdy-gurdy away with the boy asleep on top. Boy and hurdy-gurdy, mule and dog then endure a series of escapades. They drift about a lake in a rowboat. They are jailed. They climb the Alps and get lost in the snow. They meet a jolly hermit. They foil the robbers...
...shell specially weighted in the stern. If Coxswain Massey were suddenly unavailable on Boat Race Day, only alternatives would be i) using a shell other than the one the crew was accustomed to, or 2) using an average-size substitute coxswain, whose weight would cause the shell to drag. Last week, Oxford's crew coaches were trying to decide between two shaky solutions of their problem: i) building two new shells, one for Massey and one for an average-size coxswain, drilling the crew in both; 2) building a shell for an 84-lb. coxswain, putting...
...Mickey Mouse, "Donald and Flute" too involved to be listed among the best and "News of the Day." Hearst's old newsreel in disguise, tends to drag out the three and one half hour bill...
...drag President Roosevelt into court and charge him with malfeasance in devaluing the U. S. dollar in such fashion as to "cheat" holders of U. S. Government bonds is impossible, but under French law last week the French Taxpayers Federation, which claims a membership of 1,000,000 filed such a suit against both Premier Leon Blum and Finance Minister Vincent Auriol...