Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, bald, bespectacled man in the brown suit, who was freed on a technicality in London last week, looked like a Hearst cartoon of a New Deal scholar. He was no such thing: he was Gerhart Eisler...
Every time Harvard has had a good crew the question of the Poughkeepsie regatta has come up--always with the same answer: the HAA and its Yale counterpart have been unable to schedule the New London race so that the two crews can row at Poughkeepsie too. There are undeniable obstacles: the date of the race falls between the commencement exercises of the two schools, and the timing of exams and training for the regatta have made entrance in the Hudson affair impossible, as far as the respective booking agencies were concerned. But surely some solution can be worked...
...this, Bolles, Strong and Co. are to be congratulated. They stand an excellent chance of defeating Yale over the four-mile course at New London and thus finish the year undefeated. But even if they do this, they will not have met the toughest competition available: the fine western crews which will make their only east-coast appearance at Poughkeepsie the day after the Yale regatta...
When rapture No. 1 comes along, Maureen O'Hara, an impetuous young woman of the 1880s, defies her respectable family to marry an impoverished painter (Dana Andrews with a beard). Soon after he takes her off to live in a picturesque London slum, Dana turns out to be just what mother suspected-a bounder. Fortunately for Maureen, he is also a drunkard. One bright morning-after, he topples off the front stoop and breaks his neck...
...England, to be the eldest daughter of a poor Yorkshire vicar. Not even for a girl as lively, as pretty, as independent, as good and as beautiful as Arabella Tallant. Naturally she wanted to marry none of her awkward provincial suitors, so Mamma hustled her off to her wealthy London godmother who undertook to find Bella a rich husband. When the coach broke down on the way, Bella sought shelter at the nearest house, which turned out to be the country home of Mr. Robert Beaumaris, the handsomest, the most polished, the most excitingly built, the most sought after...