Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business where money talks, Brando is now being hailed as "a real drag-'em-in big-tenner like nobody since Clark Gable." And his pictures have won loud, critical huzzahs as well as some stentorian box-office grosses. Last week Brando completed a seventh, Désirée, a film version of Annemarie Selinko's 1953 bestselling novel, in which he plays Napoleon. Twentieth Century-Fox boldly predicts that it may take in up to $10 million. "Two more like Brando," said one producer, "and television can crawl back in the tube...
...cast is less able, below the generally high standard, and lacking the extenuation of playing tough parts. However, only Theodore von Kamecke, III, who is asked to play a man considerably older than his own age, with just some talcum in his hair for support, seems actually to drag...
Strange hallucinations, like waking dreams, creep into their minds. The students see patterns of dots or lines. Then, as the empty hours drag on, livelier visions appear. They may see rows of little yellow men with black caps and open mouths, or a procession of squirrels with sacks on their backs marching across the snow. The students have reported seeing prehistoric animals, weird cities, a pair of disembodied hands coming out of the ground. One student saw a set of gigantic false teeth floating down a river on a raft...
...class of 1894 at Cornell University list Glenn Scobey Warner as a law student. But as a law student, husky, alert Glenn Warner chafed at the legalisms of case books and lectures. So Warner went elsewhere for his mental work outs. In that era of knock-'em-down, drag-'em-out play, the burly (215 Ibs.) undergraduate set out to prove to Cornell and the world that brains mean as much as brawn in winning football games...
...helped enormously by operations in which their arteries are revamped to send more blood to the heart muscle (TIME, June 28. 1948). But many victims have such enlarged and feeble ("failing") hearts that they cannot withstand the drastic operation, so doctors can only send them home to drag out a few months of painful invalidism...