Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sand Hill, N.C., men apparently well from tropical diseases, acquired in an average of 18 months overseas, play a variant of ring-around-a-rosy - walloping each other with a loose boxing glove. There is a terrific din of shouting. Their six or eight hours of heavy exercise a day (pushups, pullups, hikes) seems to bring on relapse, thus winnowing out those who need more treatment. One man has had 22 relapses...
...Hand in Glove (adapted from Gerald Savory's novel Hughie Roddis by the author and Charles K. Freeman; produced by Arthur Edison) commits many crimes but not the fatal one of dullness. A grim pathological thriller, it has a double focus on a young sex psychopath who murders young girls, and on an idiot boy whom the murderer tries to frame...
...mystery, the play's suspense lies partly in the killer's make-up and machinations, partly in a Scotland Yarder's careful detective work. Unfortunately the two parts do not cooperate over well. As a study in detection, Hand in Glove lacks the right cat-&-mouse touch because the criminal's guilt-edged behavior lets the cat too quickly out of the bag. As a study of twisted personalities, it lacks the depth that would make the killer terrifying, lacks the intensity that would make the imbecile a final agent of horror. Instead...
...irons. He regulates his swing in clocklike fashion, using the same amount of punch each time, getting different distance by lengthening or shortening his backswing. Once he knows the range, he can drop ball after ball dead on the pin. (He could equip a caddy with a baseball glove and pitch iron shots to him on the first bounce.) His one weakness is with the putter. He is inclined to stroke a short putt too hard, and is more likely to sink a 20-footer than a three-footer. He knows and bemoans this frailty, but a bad session...
...U.S.C. veterans do not expect the university to turn itself inside out for them. Just a little understanding of their special problems would do, they think. For instance, 27-year-old Walter Piper, who wears a black glove because he lost his right arm on New Guinea, wishes some of his professors would not be so impatient with his slow note-taking. His left hand is not yet very handy with a pencil. And 21-year-old Marvin Niles, who is slow too, wishes the professor would remember that the German land mine which shredded and scarred...