Word: foils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lana Turner is a superbly tough and toothsome foil for Mr. Gable's masterful routines. She can so tilt her chin that, in any posture, she suggests that she is looking up from a pillow. Clark Gable has had better parts before. But in his closing speech on Bataan, he develops real heat and resonance that suggest a rather moving transition from the celluloid fictions which, for years, he has made likable, into facts which, for the duration, will be his obscure, more serious business...
...cinemactors appear to take more pains than Hoofer Astaire, less pains than Crooner Crosby. Result: Crosby's easy, casual banter is just the right foil for Astaire's precision acrobatics, his wry, offbeat humor...
With its two week vacation all but over, the Varsity baseball nine is priming for its first League game since April 20, when Columbia comes to Soldiers Field on Saturday. The Lions were also the foil of the Crimson's last official contest in New York...
Waldstein May Foil Tigers...
...foil competition, Captain Joe Koch, with mates George Wilbur and John Vaughan, won a total of seven matches, but dropped eight to take 10th place. In the epee division, the Varsity met with more luck, winning seven of 16, but again finished in the 10th spot. The sabre standings placed the Crimson in the same position, 10th among 13 teams participating...