Word: dugout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JOURNEY'S END-English gentlemen in a World War dugout, emotionally stripped for action (TIME, APRIL...
...dugout. The Front cages us in. The barrage gets heavier. An attack must be coming. Shells howl, flash, bang. Our own hands tremble but we must watch the new recruits. They are mere children with narrow shoulders, so terrified they cannot control their bowels. One of them has a fit, runs outside. Result: the trench gets plastered with lumps of flesh, bits of uniform...
...torn off. He runs a few steps more while the blood spouts from his neck like a fountain. I fall into an open belly. I see a man biting his own arm. I see another stagger away holding his front in. We regain our trench. The rats leave our dugout, to fatten on dead and dying in No Man's Land...
...Ticknor '31 in centerfield, when he learned that the gymnasts were starting their southpaw Lipp, but Ticknor continued in his batting slump, striking out three times. Nugent drew a walk in the first inning. E. H. McGrath '31 singled, and a passed ball which rolled into the Crimson dugout let them both in. A moment later when the catcher dropped his third strike. Ticknor saw first base for the first time since early in the Southern trip, but was stranded there...
STRANGE INTERLUDE-Eugene O'Neill's curious, long, effective expedition into the human soul (TIME, Feb. 13, 1928). STREET SCENE-A slice of tenement life, deftly cut (TIME, Jan. 21). JOURNEY'S END-Ten men in a World War dugout (TIME, April 1). LIGHT HOLIDAY-The brightest dialog of the season (TIME, Dec. 10). CAPRICE-Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in a merry importation (TIME, Jan. 14). KIBITZER-The preposterous adventures of a Jewish know-it-all in the stock market (TIME, March 4). MUSICAL Best light lines, legs and lyrics: Hold Everything, Whoopee, Follow Thru...