Word: homier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMID the grind of the Machine Age, U.S. sportsmen still revere and enjoy the horse. Most of their excitement comes from racing (some 600 tracks with 50 million customers a year), but to a lot of Americans the horse means homier, less high-pitched forms of sport...
...nearly perfect performance. And his role is no snap. He must alternate between kindliness and deadliness, each with equal fervor, and yet without destroying the plausibility of either. Millard Mitchell, as a rugged marshal, is an old hand at being expert, as is bar-tender Karl Malden. Skip Homier and Richard Jeckel are the shot and kicked punks, and they seem to enjoy their work...