Word: dressier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Princeton had pulled in front 68 to 50, Harvard made one abortive last gasp. Sedlacek hit two long jump shots; then after a Princeton basket McClung bucketed one of his Over-the-Head Specials and Bill Fegley swished a 25-footer. With the score 70-60, Gene Dressier cannily stole the ball from Bradley, raced downcourt, took a jump shot from the foul circle--and blew it. That ended the rally...
...Basketball: Only captain Gene Dressler, a guard, seems likely to make Floyd Wilson's squad. Even though the varsity doesn't need guards (with Keith Sedlacek, captain-elect Leo Scully, and lettermen Al Bornhelmer and Bill Fegley back), freshman coach Bruce Munro speculated that Dressier might "give some people a run for their money...
...dressier wear, however, some men like a suit along the lines of JFK's semi-lounge model (two buttons, longer lapels, some waist suppression, and a bit more shoulder padding). Either the Warwick or Andover models are far better for the occasional suit buyer with a limited amount of interest, time, and money...
...Walt Dressier is the reluctant candidate. He is a smalltown lawyer, has ideals, and spouts them. His supporters, including Emil Hornstein, his campaign manager, listen with horrified dismay and, unlike the reader, bury their misgivings. The plot is hand-me-down-hostile columnist, incriminating photograph, Communist smear-and between, Traver rambles on with flatfooted passion about half a hundred worthy causes dear to his heart. So dear to his heart, in fact, that Traver (in real life John Voelker) resigned as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court to write this book. He should have stayed on the bench...
...Broca, the comedy that counts is the comedy of character, and in Cassel he has found a richly responsive instrument to play on: a comedian who, like Chaplin or Marie Dressier, is more an actor than a performer. And through the character Cassel creates-a ludicrous but lovable mixture of Don Juan and Peter Pan-the moviemaker says something subtle and gently ironic about the character of urban youth in modern France. But at the core of his comedy, in scenes that hop, skip and jump like almost nothing since Rene Clair's great comedies (The Million, The Italian...