Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnny, it's better to be lucky than good," drawled Atlanta's Yates, the team's clown, after he had ousted Fischer by laying him a dead stymie on the 19th green. In the third round, Captain Ouimet was nosed out on the last hole by hard-hitting Cecil Ewing, one of Ireland's best. On the fourth day, a lashing gale and pounding rain swept even sturdy Johnny Goodman off his balance and out of the tournament, beaten by his teammate Charley Kocsis-who was in turn defeated by the homebred Stevenson later...
...finds it. Gottfried (Robert Young) wants to change it. He belongs to a political society, and when he is shot by a gunman of no particular party stripe, Otto avenges him with a bullet from his army Luger. When Patricia, whom all three loved so well and worked so hard for, dies of tuberculosis, Otto and Erich must depend on ghosts for comradeship...
Southern California journalism is dominated by two aged titans, William Randolph Hearst (Los Angeles Examiner and Herald and Express) and Harry Chandler (Los Angeles Times'). A lonely liberal voice in the midst of this die-hard desert is the little Hollywood Citizen-News, published by a pious progressive from Minnesota, Judge Harlan Guyant Palmer. Publisher Palmer likes the New Deal, dislikes the utilities...
...played and how Rick Martin fell when he played it-but since what he felt was principally a moment of inspiration and self-forgetfulness, her accounts might apply as well to bad jazz as to good. Young Man with a Horn sounds right when Author Baker writes about the hard, homely details of musicians' lives, the routine of rehearsals, fights, salaries, jealousies, weariness, interrupted with moments of feverish musical excitement. It comes out strong when she describes the naïve snobbery of Jack Stuart's Collegians, with its clean-cut young leader artfully squelching better musicians than...
...record of a drab and distressing life, makes prostitution attractive to nobody. Its author seems intelligent, unsentimental but strangely apathetic, gives the impression that she could have escaped her environment but stayed in it because she suspected that possible alternatives would be equally bad. Her mother was a screaming, hard-drinking nervous case, her father a whining incompetent...