Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Going into the meet with a large number of able veterans, who have compiled brilliant records, Harvard is expected to win over an M.I.T. aggregation which numbers only three experienced men in its lot...
Thowing precedent off the lot, Korda begins his version of Rembrandt with the painter at the peak of popularity and wealth and stops the cameras while the hero still lives and chuckles. The first axe to fall on Rambrandt's life is the death of his loved wife, Saskia, followed shortly by the failure of the painting "The Night Watch" to please the vain guardsmen. Rembrandt skids down hill, his style goes out of favor and his house-keeper-mistress (Gertrude Lawrence) becomes a shrew. He finds a few short years of peace and success with the adoring Hendrickje Stoffels...
...black and white film. Such a picture is "The Ski Chase," featuring the excellent ski-ability of Hannes Schnoider. Laid in the spacious snow-doopened mountains of the Austrian Tyrol, this German production given an unusual and varied conception of the winter sport. We don't know a terrible lot about skiing, but the feats and perfection of the fifty or more skiers looked pretty good. Man and snow make a beautiful combination anyway, and when skis are added, there is abundance of action...
...preaches the gospel to crowds attracted by Aunt Ede's singing, to her own accompaniment. Says he: "She is one of the finest outdoor singers in America." Embarking last week on their new venture, Mr. Whitelock declared: "We're starting on faith alone. No one with a lot of money is backing us. What does it say in the Bible-Carry neither purse, nor scrip? Churches are necessary, but Christianity is too big to be confined to churches alone." The church which confined Baptist Whitelock to his itinerant preaching in the summer was Horace Memorial in Chelsea, Mass...
...vacation in Monticello, Fla. went Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "Are you going to catch any fish?" asked a newshawk. Replied the Governor: "I've got a lot more chance than I had in the last campaign." Bedded in a Denver hospital, Oregon's eloquent Senator Frederick ("Three Long Years") Steiwer lamented the loss of "a good audience" of Senate Republicans to listen to him tell about his gall stone operation. Moaned he: "Imagine starting out, 'Now, when I had my operation,' and having only 15 or 20 around to hear!" Golfing and fishing at Miami...