Word: franked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alfred Driscoll, up for reelection, was on record against the game. Said Driscoll: "Some people characterize bingo as a harmless pastime. I say it is gambling, and has been known to be run at times by gangsters and racketeers." His Democratic opponent, Elmer H. Wene, who is backed by Frank Hague, the dethroned boss of Jersey City, said he saw nothing wrong with bingo...
...itself for the clash of two football titans-Notre Dame v. Tulane. From his mourners' bench at South Bend, Ind., Coach Frank Leahy cried, "We'll be outweighed for the first time in two years." On the Tulane campus in New Orleans, where Coach Henry Frnka (pronounced franka) had been holding secret practice for weeks, there was impressive silence...
...Haven, Conn., Cornell rolled up the highest score (48-14) ever recorded against Yale in the Yale Bowl. CJ At Berkeley, Calif., Halfback Frank Brunk of the University of California caught a Trojan kickoff in his end zone, ran 102 yards to a touchdown in the final quarter and upset Southern California...
...whole film. For some unaccountable reason the hair-raising possibilities of authentic history have been submerged in the muddled and often maudlin story of an overaged cavalry officer (John Wayne) in a U.S. Army outpost. More unaccountably, the paste-pot yarn was put together by two veteran scripters: Frank Nugent and Laurence Stallings...
Also in the Yard today will be Frank Taylor, producer, John Sturgess, director, and John Alton, cameraman. Taylor arrived at Harvard Saturday to complete pre-shooting arrangements with Yard police and the University...