Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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House football teams enter a busy week, with eight games scheduled on four playing days. On Monday, Dudley meets undefeated Winthrop, and Leverett plays Dunster, Kirkland, tied with Winthrop for the lead, tangles with Adams on Tuesday, while Eliot meets Lowell...
...promise that he did not want to become a dictator: "Assurances are not worth a continental when they come from men who care no more for their word than a tomcat cares for a marriage license in a back alley on a dark night." On AAA: "I was number eight in a brood of ten. Under this New Deal ... I never would have arrived at all. Or, had I been fortunate enough to have seen daylight . . . little Henry Wallace or Dr. Tugwell . . . would have knocked me in the head and plowed me under...
...body movements of the charmer. Carefully keeping them swaying with a motion of his hand. Sir Miles's charmer stopped playing, inched forward, and with his other hand firmly grasped one reptile behind the neck, lifted it into a bag. He then repeated the performance on the remaining eight...
Last week, when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down decisions on special session bills dealing with an investigation of the State administration, it was not news. Ten hours earlier, under an eight-column banner headline, the Inquirer had accurately announced the court's action...
...When Hellzapoppin (TIME, Oct. 3) opened in Manhattan, all critics agreed that it split their eardrums, few admitted that it split their sides. One of the few was Critic Walter Winchell. Winchell razzed his fellow critics, claimed that seven out of eight had also "laughed & laughed & laughed" but were ashamed to admit it in print next day. In the uproar which followed, three-ring Critic George Jean Nathan (Esquire, Newsweek, Scribner's) backed up Winchell, called Hellzapoppin "funnier than the Pulitzer Prize"; Critic John Anderson (N. Y. Journal & American} refused to budge an inch; wisecrackers in general suggested...