Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed peninsula rain, which sometimes drips 122 inches a year, washed them out. Ickes looked tired, his face grey where it was not floridly blotched. He growled to a reporter: "I haven't hrd a vacation yet." Said Jane Ickes: "All this talk of vacation is so much fluff...
...have acknowledged him to be less than 170, although it has been rumored consistently that he scales less than 165. He makes up with a perfection of style for what he lacks in "beef," and has certainly proved a proficient filler of the rowing socks left empty by Fluff Stevens, the 1940 captain...
...newcomers on Bolles' tentative Varsity include Juniors Paul Penneyer at number two, Fred Herter, captain of his Freshman eight, at five, and six foot seven Hallett Whitman at six. Sophomore Dave Challinor is occupying the number seven slide, left open by the graduation of last year's captain Fluff Stevens, and Colt Wagner, stroke of the Jayvees last June, is the present pacesetter. Jimmy Ducey, out of College last year, is at present holding the tiller ropes...
...scoring. There is his poker-faced observation of the ridiculous. And there is his Svengalish knack of urging the utmost from his actors. For the first time in his movie career, Burgess Meredith is sufficiently subdued to be a funny comedian. For an advanced course in the sort of fluff & nonsense which has been the Lubitsch trademark, That Uncertain Feeling is a prerequisite...
Thus, about the only concrete fact that Bolles has to toy with is that out of last year's once beaten eight, Captain Fluff Stevens, Walt Kernan, Johnny Richards, and coxswain George Shortlege are missing. Returning lettermen include this year's captain, Shuff Gray, now engaged in hockey activities, Bruce Pirnie, Sam Goddard, Dick Fowler, and stroke Jack Wilson. In addition to these veterans there is a complete Jayvee boatload returning from last year. Also the 1943 shell, which left ten lengths of open water between it and the Elis returns almost intact...