Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monday night before a capacity crowd of alumni and undergraduates the Blue played a fast game with the Tiger sextet, but the goals of Bill Platt and Dud Humphrey were not enough to hold the revengeful Princetonians...
...Black Legion" tells a tale of terrorism and character degeneration which is gripping in its realism and frightening in its truth. Founded on the Michigan scare of some months age, if relates the story of Frank Taylor (Humphrey Hogart), a typical poorly educated machine shop worker in a large industrial town...
Black Legion (Warner). Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart), machine-shop worker, has just made arrangements to buy a new car for his wife Ruth (Erin O'Brien-Moore) when he learns that the foreman's job he was counting on has gone to a young Pole. His disappointment makes him susceptible when invited to join a secret organization whose purpose is to prevent foreigners from taking jobs away from U. S. workmen. Ensuing developments, derived from the activities of Detroit's "Black Legion," make the pic ture one of the most effective in Warner Brothers series of industrial...
Most of the novels about the World War, from Andreas Latzko's Men in Battle (1930) to Humphrey Cobb's Paths of Glory (1935), have been in terms of frontline fighting. To such outstanding exceptions as John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers and Arnold Zweig's Case of Sergeant Grischa was added this week Author van der Meersch's Invasion-the first novel to show what the War was like for civilians caught behind the German lines. Invasion's scene is the district around Lille, in northern France, a narrow strip between the Belgian border...
...Admiral Humphrey Hugh Smith, D.S.O., spent 37 years in the British Navy, but never polished up the handle of any big front door. Now retired, with bluff British candor he admits: "I spend my time on meditating on my utterly misspent but thoroughly enjoyable past." Though he served all through the War, he never mentions that he ever saw action, is mum's self on the subject of his D.S.O...