Word: funster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third field, Dudley camped on the Dunster goal-line most of the afternoon, but only managed to put one score across. This came in the second frame, when Len Cummings, star Rambler end, intercepted a Funster lateral on their own forty yard line, and scampered down the field for the touchdown. No one laid a hand on him for the last twenty yards, and he was leading the pack by a good 30 feet when he went over into the end zone...
Lowell was not to be stopped. Sorlein returned the punt to the Funster's 17, and on the next play Felmeth heaved a touchdown pass to right end Bob Axtell. Felmeth's pass to Sorlein failed for the exera point, and the game ended 30 seconds later, Lowell victor...
Twice within five minutes, as the result of Funster fumbles, the favorites found themselves within three or four yards of pay dirt, but failed to make the grade each time...
Lanky Nat Young, who got off some beautiful punts, incidentally, and effectively sparked the Funster backfield all the way through, pounded his way to the goal line on an off-tackle shot which started as a strong side smash and shalked up the winning margin for Dunster. The conversion was missed...
Topper's nextdoor neighbors are a houseful of leering, peering evildoers and a pair of curvaceous blondes. One blonde (Carole Landis) has returned from China to inherit the place. The other (Joan Blondell) strings along as friend and funster, gets a knife in her back before the night is out. Follows the usual Thorne Smith transmogrification in which Joan turns ghost, floats over to Topper's house, lures him, his wife (Billie Burke), her maid (Patsy Kelly) and his colored chauffeur (Eddie Anderson) back to the scene of the crime for a dose of spooks. Before Topper points...