Word: locker-room
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...nation, she lays siege to her innocent quarry in a hectically eclectic attempt at seduction. No woman's wile is too corny or battle-worn for Lola as she romps about the stage to an insistent Latin rhythm, flinging caution and clothing to the winds. Stretched on a locker-room bench upstage, she sparks the onslaught with a try at the always reliable peek-a-boo technique. "Allo, Joe, it's meee-ee," she coos. A second later she is up and mincing forward as purposefully pigeon-toed as Betty Boop. Along the line two gloves...
...story purposes, the hero is Owner-Manager Abe Saperstein (played with plenty of locker-room lip and front-office charm by Dane Clark), the Chicago boy who pushed the Trotters to the top and still keeps them there. For spectator purposes, the real heroes are the famed hams of the hardwood themselves: Marques Haynes, who proves with his incredible dachshund dribble that if the modern basketball giant cannot be passed over he can be passed under, and Goose Tatum, who at one point, standing flat on his feet, wiggles so disconcertingly that an opponent stumbles and almost falls down. Best...
Stevenson's speech had just ended and the reporters traveling with the train began scrambling aboard. The press car, a coach with all scats removed and typing desks substituted, sounded like a locker-room between the halves of a close football game as the reporters rushed in to copy down their notes on Stevenson's reception in Pittsfield. On the window alongside each reporter's desk was placed the banner of the newspaper he represented. The Philadelphia Bulletin leaned across the aisle and said to the San Francisco Chronicle, "One of his best, on?" The Chronicle man nodded happily...
...Rockne fans may still believe in pep talks, but Strategist Waldorf, no orator, says that "the day of the inspired locker-room oration has long since passed." He pins his hopes on "long hours of hard work on the practice field...
...shoe was on the other foot, and Percy Haughton was enthusiastically strangling bulldog pups in the pre-game locker-room meetings and urging his team to go out on the field and do the same...