Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though it was that many of them (Mister Roberts, Command Decision, The Heiress) had previously been books. And there was, at last, what almost everybody regarded as a substantial young playwright: Tennessee Williams, whose Streetcar Named Desire won both the Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize-a feat achieved only once before, by William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life...
Captain Sam Savidge was the only man to drop a full point to a B.U. player, a feat he accomplished by shooting an even 80. He did, however, win in the best ball play, thereby evening himself up for the afternoon. Both Sam Seagar and Bill Rickenbacher toured the links in 77 strokes...
Penn's mightiest feat was achieved last night, when it came within two points of handing Columbia its first defeat of the year...
Amazingly enough, the movie manages to retain most of the playful charm of a weekend love affair that earned the stage version a five-year run. For this feat, author John Van Druten, who was on hand in Hollywood, is presumably responsible...
...movie hero: while remaining a virile 6 ft. 3 in., he can suggest, if the plot demands it, a man who is delicate, ill, or even morally weak. Peck appeals, as a very popular male star must, to both bobby-soxers and their mothers. He manages this feat without presenting himself as a big brother, as a cute, asexual nephew, or as a sophisticated porch climber. Men also immediately like him and wish him well; they feel that he is, in fact, an average human being-luckier, better looking and more gifted than they, but essentially one of themselves...