Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after a silent six-week visit. Mother lingered behind, possibly to paste in the family scrapbook a piquant social item from the Des Moines Register; "When [Lady Astor] finished speaking at the . . . tea, one of the guests thanked the speaker profusely. The English noblewoman responded with a sudden kick right on her admirer's posterior. The guest stiffened,then, with a gale of laughter, turned and kicked the Lady right back...
...well. The Elis last year stole all the American rugby glory by being invited to Bermuda, where they defeated two Royal Navy teams, 9 to 0 and 16 to 3, tied the Gloucestershire Regiment squad, and lost their final game to the Bermuda A.A. by virtue of one free-kick which the Bermudans placed between the goalpost to win 3 to 0. To match this, Harvard must look back to the 1943-44 season when a team, half of them freshmen who had never seen the sport previously, chalked up six wins to one loss and one tie against various...
...Dutch actress, Joanne de Bergh (as Conte's ex-wife), do particularly well in minor roles. Radio Actress Betty Garde is hair-raising in her biggest scene; and Jane Crowley makes her bit as a middle-aged tramp as memorable as a well-aimed mule's kick. E. G. Marshall is excellent as Miss de Bergh's second husband, and the writers are to be congratulated for daring to suggest in a movie that a successful marriage need not be an eternity of ootchmagootch between a pair of raving beauties...
What sparks the Chamber's fervor? Said Morris Pendleton, president of Los Angeles' Plomb Tool Co.: "We know that Los Angeles is a big city but not yet a great city. We get a hell of a kick out of trying to make it great...
...thatched Frank Gurley, Varsity captain, timed his kick just right in the 1000, jumping a bunched field on the gunlap and winning by five yards. His time-2:15-compares favorably with Reggie Pearman's 2:14:6 winning effort in the Lapham 1000 Saturday night at the B.A.A. games...