Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than a week away, it is nevertheless still too early to predict a complete starting lineup or make any guesses as to the outcome of the Yardlings' season. Coach Lamar keeps pretty mum about his choices for most of the squad spots and in Freshman football anything can happen in the course of a season. But a look at the '51 roster and the spirited practices held so far indicate that Coach Lamar will have no dearth of talent in this group of gridders playing together for the first time...
...guess who it is that falls into the briny deep. And that, in toto, is all there is to it. Just to make things a bit easier for the duller cinema-goer a convenient cue to the action has been supplied whenever anything important is about to happen the weather always produces a windstorm or a fog or a thunderstorm. When nothing important is going on the weather clears off, naturally. Garson's back and you can have...
...long as Mr. Wallace attacks Administration policy, without proposing a particular alternative, he can appeal to all those who share his disapproval of the course currently being followed by the government. Once he offers a detailed program of his own, he will retain the support only of those who happen to prefer exactly the same policy. Mr. Wallace should not be too severely censured for adopting the same technique being used by Taft, Dewey, Stassen,and indeed every Presidential aspirant...
...censored strips, the Senate needed one vote to defeat a bill to put Congress on the air ("and you know what'll happen to us if the American people can actually hear us!"). The Senate's only hope was hideous, snaggle-toothed Senator Phogbound of Dogpatch, "th' most ignorant commoonity in th' country." Phogbound's price was $2,000,000 to build a Phogbound University, "to be known as P.U." He got the appropriation (argued one Senator: "It isn't as though it were my money-it's just taxpayers' money...
...duties to his family and to the world. Meanwhile an assortment of bad and middling actors walk in and out, dramatizing the arguments each way. This sort of thing begins to be terribly tedious toward the middle of the second act, and the curious things that start to happen when Massey is left alone on the stage help things only slightly. A little man, dressed as Massey, climbs out of a chimney (the set is a roof) and starts to berate his master, presumably the body and emotions of the scientist, for just about everything that he has said...