Word: elie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waterfront (United Artists) exhibits a new way to smuggle Chinese houseboys into San Diego: in the stomachs of large sharks, whose mouths are propped open so that their inmates can breathe. This sordid aid to immigration is devised in I Cover the Waterfront by a grizzled old fishing captain, Eli Kirk (Ernest Torrence). It is discovered and reported to the authorities by a brisk and bibulous journalist (Ben Lyon) who is in love with Kirk's daughter, Julie (Claudette Colbert). The difficulties you might expect in a situation of this sort arise promptly: a Coast Guard officer shoots Kirk...
...debaters have a record of three victories, including one over Yale earlier in the season, three defeats, and three no-decision debates. The members of the team debating here against the Eli are headed by D. M. Sullivan '33, president of the Debating Society, and include R. H. Amberg '33, and A. E. Phillips '34, with M. J. Litwack '34, and O. H. Lurie '34, as alternates...
...stepped forth springily from the wings just before 8:30 p. m., apparently misinformed about the hour of the NBC broadcast, which was 8:45 p. m. He fussed with his beard, rustled his notes and twinkled professionally at Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament and Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds, present to sponsor and introduce him. At length, when the radiomen, signalled ready and Banker Reynolds made the necessary gestures, the whiskery, long-shanked Irishman arose and began...
...Yale game three weeks ago against a favored Eli team, the Varsity's last-chukker rally was all that saved them from an overwhelming defeat. If they can get started early against Princeton tomorrow, and can hold Firestone and Sullivan in check for the first two chukkers, the Crimson poloists will have a good chance of winning...
...sons of Eli and Nassan, however, hold a decided advantage over the Harvardians, for they are not only nearer to New York, the fashion center of the East, but also have had no supposedly humorous publicity campaigns to emphasize the acme of vulgarity in their respective institutions. But the local Bearers of the Braces all agree that Harvard men need only one thing to regain their lost leadership in collegiate styles, and that is the courage to wear the latest fashions when they first come...