Word: lombards
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...been easier to achieve in Hollywood's so-called Golden (read: Caucasian) Age, when actresses were not merely ornaments to stud stars, and women's roles were not appendages in macho movies. Then, the dream factory custom-made its shiniest vehicles to suit the likes of Garbo, Stanwyck, Crawford, Lombard, Monroe, Shirley Temple and two ladies named Hepburn - but not anyone of color, no matter how talented or glamorous she might be. That was the way things were. Hollywood relegated blacks, actors and actresses, to the corner of the frame, to menial roles, to dialogue that usually ran the tiniest...
Harvard pulled ahead of Yale with four minutes gone by, as sophomore forward Tim Pettit took advantage of Yale’s failure to clear the puck and potted a point-blank shot behind Yale goalie Dan Lombard...
...expression of emotion. For moviegoers, moving pictures of moving figures could be so ... moving. Poetry in motion. As the girl was swept into the boy?s arms, viewers were swept into the deepest empathy. That?s why, to many people, the most romantic film couple was not Gable and Lombard but Astaire and Rogers - because Fred and Ginger translated feelings of love, depression, jealousy, joy in the integrated choreography of their bodies. In this more inhibited era, holding a woman or lifting her or spinning her across the ballroom floor was the most explicit metaphor for the whole range...
Moore routinely addressed the puck at center ice with the sellout crowd of 2,776 standing on its feet. With every eye on him, Moore—the calm, collected leader—beat Lombard as if it was a formality, then casually raised his stick into the air as he had so many times before...
Kolarik—his legs pumping like pistons as he spun in front of the Yale goal—was able to collect a rebound on his backhand side and flip it past Lombard. The ever-energetic Kolarik was knocked off-balance as the puck crossed the red line, so it was with his helmet half-off and his back on the ice that he celebrated his fifth of the year...