Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow passenger, a free-lance reporter named Richard Yaffe, just how his one-man escape act had been worked. He had simply gone to Manhattan's Pier 88, bought a 25? visitor's ticket to the Batory, and gone aboard. When the ship got past Ambrose Light, he reported to the purser and paid for passage. "I gave the U.S. authorities a chance to correct their uncivilized attitude toward my person, and to stop using me as a bogey man," said Gerhart. "But [they] did not take the chance. I have another purpose in life than...
...behalf of the National Highway Users Conference, Mrs. Emily Post, doyenne of U.S. manners, wrote a 46-page treatise called "Motor Manners." Sample mannerisms: "... A gentleman will no more cheat a red light or a stop sign than he would cheat in a game of cards. A courteous lady will not 'scold' others raucously with her automobile horn any more than she would act like a 'fishwife' at a party...
...meet will probably be as close as any this season, the team hastens to explain, for Yale's team is fairly strong and liberally scattered with stars. The records of the two teams throws little light on tomorrow's outcome, as there is no common opponent against which the Crimson and the Blue can be compared...
...pounds are slower and can keep their pace for less distance than the average heavy eight. This is because much of the smoothness and drive of a shell is provided by the easy swing of the upper body and shoulders of the oarsmen at the catch and that, because light weights must make up in strength what they lack in beef, they muscle out a more strenuous and less rhythmic stroke. The Crimson third heavies versus the first 150's is thus an unpredictable and much discussed meeting...
...scenes of the film were shot entirely at the Wiltwyck School and in the streets and dingy apartments of Harlem. The photography is superb; it not only portrays the sordidness of the slums, but also sets the mood at all times with varying patterns of light and dark. As a result, there is no need for the incessant narrative that typifies most documentaries; comments are brief and quite adequate. Dialogue is also cut to an absolute minimum, and it is a tribute to the acting and directing that so many ideas are carried across to the audience without...