Word: fright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem to warrant. Witnesses of the Crimson eleven clicking off plays in practice sessions prier to that game can't help but feel that the Harlow trained boys have a punch they couldn't uncock against Army. Whether it was the rain, or just a bad case of stage fright doesn't matter now-there is very little use in crying over the 32 points cropped by the Army mule from Cambridge turf last Saturday. The important question is whether or not this latent Crimson strength is fact or myth...
...aware that she is falling in love with him. Climax of her disintegration occurs when she claims the sinister box as her own in order to dissuade a Scotland Yarder from opening it. Every possible dramatic drop is squeezed from the scene in which Mrs. Bramson becomes hysterical with fright at being left alone in the house, hysterical with relief when her adored "Danny" comes back - to smother her with a cushion...
...Browsing peacefully in a tiny pasture at Llwyncelyn, near Llandilo. in a desolate part of Carmarthenshire, Wales, last week, three cows had the fright of their lives as a trim blue & silver monoplane suddenly dropped down out of the mist to a bumpy landing beside them. As the cows' owner ran up, out o? the plane stepped a black-jowled, slick-&-kinky-haired man wearing a very dark shirt, a very light necktie. In a voice which sounded as if he had a hot potato in his mouth he demanded: "Is this Scotland...
...best of moods he invited all the foreign correspondents present to lunch. In a body they moved on to a dusty little trattoria whose proprietor, trembling with excitement, rushed from house to house for extra supplies. The little inn's solitary waiter nearly died of stage fright...
...cinemaddicts who she was, Baby, Take a Bow, then shuttled her back to Paramount for Now and Forever. When the grosses of these three pictures were recorded, it was undeniably apparent that Shirley Temple was potentially the most valuable human property in Hollywood. Now thoroughly alarmed, Fox got stage fright about stories. Director David Butler finally suggested one called Bright Eyes, released at Christmas...