Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about youngsters written by youngsters (John Monks Jr. & Fred F. Finklehoffe, V. M. I. '32). It had been returned by 31 other managements. The Abbott touch converted it into a Broadway hit, a $150,000 film property (Warners). Producer Abbott prefers to pick his plays out of the grab bag, or help write them himself, as he did Broadway (with Philip Dunning), Coquette (with Ann Preston Bridgers), Three Men On A Horse (with John Cecil Holm). He has produced plays by established authors, like the Bella & Samuel Spewack Boy Meets Girl, but his experience with warranted materials...
Last spring the Varsity ball team failed to cop the Eastern Intercollegiate League title due to a split with Yale in the League games. In the first game of the crucial series in which Harvard needed to grab both contests to take the crown, the Eli sewed up the top position by winning a sensational 14-inning game, 7-6, at New Haven on June 22. On June 23, on Soldiers Field, the Crimson assured themselves second place by staging a comeback, overcoming a large Yale lead, and winning 10-7. With the League games over, but the Yale series...
Locker-Boy Thomas Bowman jumped for the trailing fragment of anchor line, stumbled when he was about to grab it. As Aerialist Mingalone rose speedily, so did the alarm of his fellow Cameraman Philip Coolidge and his friend, Rev. James J. Mullen, Old Orchard priest, golfer, aviation enthusiast and expert skeetshooter who was watching the experiment...
Another way to get up, shown in the pictures, is to grab the crack with one's hands, brace with the feet just below the crack, and move if you can. Then when you get to a vertical niche, you just go right...
...greatest ambition, though, is to have a 26-piece orchestra. In his present performances he uses 15 men, and in his recordings he uses only six. After he gets his bing gang together, Fats wants to have a chain of orchestras. "I wants to grab all dose cats that sings and put 'em in Fats Waller units," he said. Fats' favorite colored band is Fletcher Henderson's, while his pet white orchestra is Tommy Dorsey's. He prefers Ambrose to Ray Noble...