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...DUFF, we got a ball game. It may COSTES dearly, it may be a PIRIK victory, but if you PUJO mind to it, the score will be Yankees 7 Dodgers...
...town's traffic problem was slowly being untangled. Two weeks ago Governor Jim Duff presided over the dynamiting-through of a ¾-mile-long tunnel under Squirrel Hill, part of a highway which will carry traffic from the Pennsylvania Turnpike through the city and across the Monongahela towards the west...
...Canyon (Universal-International), a Technicolored horse opera, is not appreciably different from dozens of other westerns currently galloping around the neighborhood circuits. In a rambling, inconsequential fashion, it tells the story of a reformed, horse-loving outlaw (Howard Duff) who meets up with the pretty daughter (Ann Blyth) of a rich, horse-racing rancher (George Brent). Howard is out to capture a wild horse. Ann, despite some flimsy pretenses to the contrary, is bent on catching a tame husband. After a good deal of shooting, roping and racing, and without offending either the S.P.C.A. or the Johnston Office, both...
Paris was as gay as ever. The dressy set had recovered from the Four Seasons Ball, and was studying pictorial evidence of the shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...
...manuscripts for the publishing house of Chapman & Hall (he was their chief reader, and discovered Hardy), wrote poetry, and lived a reasonably full social life. His friends were critics and editors, poets like Swinburne, naval heroes like Admiral Frederick Maxse, or permanent officials in the Treasury, like Sir Alexander Duff Gordon. "Socially, they were swells; but they were unaffluent and unconventional swells...