Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Powell went through the paces of "Flirtation Walk", and which has been used in countless musical spectacles since that time, forms the basis of "Navy Blue and Gold," currently featured at the University Theatre. "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry", the co-feature, also plays upon an ancient theme in a familiar way; one might almost think this was review week...
...good points of these two pictures do not rescue the double bill from mediocrity. "Navy Blue and Gold" drags weefully as it tells the familiar story of a loyal Navy man who is almost dismissed but is pardoned at the last moment just in time to win the annual Army game. James Stewart is the bashful, blushing here, who spends half his time examining his feet in boyish timidity. Robert Young is his roommate who learns to love the glorious traditions of the Navy. Florence Rice is a very weak love interest...
Although nothing has been said about it publicly, it was known to those intimately familiar with Harvard football, that Harlow had developed a peculiar offensive play, and that it was practically unstoppable by any known defense when each man fulfilled his assignment perfectly. It will presumably he carried to Pennsylvania, and Harlow will have the problem of developing a defense...
...most important feature of the new furnace is that contamination of the metal under study, by carbon or other impurities, can be entirely eliminated. The familiar carbon are reaches as high temperatures as the electron furnace; but as an experimental device the carbon arc is less effective because of uncontrollable carbon contamination...
...Sept. 14, 1936, et seq.). And there is a promise of native warmth when the plane plops down in the midst of peasant festivities in a Norse village. But neither promise is kept. Just as soon as they artfully can, the script writers haul the characters back to the familiar Manhattan night-club surroundings, and thenceforth the picture proceeds through the high & hackneyed jinks of a machine-made plot. Ethel Merman sings with her usual lid-off verve, like a hotcha stenographer at a house party, and skates a little bit. Ameche and Romero spark like worn-out cigaret lighters...