Word: goode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jerry-built from bits & pieces of half a dozen old Humphrey Bogart thrillers. The movie's weary, grey air is due to its stolid dependence on what has become a Bogart stencil; as a scowling rebel who just wants to be left alone by laws, red tape and good works, half-villain Hero Bogart is repeatedly maneuvered by his better nature into warring against evil. In his recent Key Largo, the malevolent-browed hero blocked the return of Capone-style gangsterism to the U.S., and in the soon-to-be-released Chain Lightning his visionary test-piloting insures...
...Such good will was infectious. Always easily infected, handsome "Big Ed" Stettinius, U.S. Secretary of State, earnestly told Uncle Joe that if they all worked together after the war, every house in Russia could have plumbing and electricity. Statesmanship could go no farther...
Randall stated that he did not feel that the riot was too serious, and that it could have been a good deal worse. "The reason it didn't get more out of hand," he said, "was that the Harvard boys we spoke to were pretty cooperative. I don't feel, however, that the Princeton students cooperated at all well...
Harvard was doing all right until it ran out of players and strength. That was one period and two touchdowns before the end of the game, and it was those last 15 minutes that made the difference between a good showing and another bad defeat...
...Manager Heaman. Some of his minor suggestions, like toasters in Winthrop House, were adopted; proposals for more efficient steam tables were discarded as too costly. Seiler's general opinion, that the food would be greatly improved if the preparation was brought closer to the serving, was discarded as a good but impractical idea...