Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raffles (David Niven*), cricketer and second-story man, whose faulty sense of property rights is corrected by a great love (Olivia de Havilland). In the first Goldwyn version, Ronald Colman played Raffles with ardor. David Niven plays the part with crookish cunning. But Niven's cunning is no match for Scotland Yard in the person of Dudley Digges. As canny, candy-munching In spector Mackenzie, Actor Digges, who can lift a scene with less effort than Raffles steals a necklace, pilfers most of the picture. What he leaves is filched by Dame May Whitty (the lady of The Lady...
...Churches which are not ready to meet and match, in the conduct of their own affairs, the tolerance and sympathy which mark the college chapels, must expect to for felt the enthusiasm of returning graduates and to suffer accordingly," he stated...
Cherubic, go-getting First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill observed the kissing match from a balcony...
...point in the evening someone produced a rifle, suggested that they celebrate the good old days with a good old-fashioned shooting match. Carried by acclamation. The hotel corridor made a fine shooting gallery, with a homemade target set at one end of it. It was all carried out in military style. One Dane stood sentinel at the elevator door, warning back passengers with a white flag. As the rifle banged, horrified hotel guests cowered in their rooms, bellhops scurried for cover. Several bullets hit the target. Nobody got shot. It was one of the most successful meetings the Manhattan...
...approaching war found its ace, H. V. Kaltenborn, in Europe. Now, with his commercial program three times a week and daily breakfast-time and post-dinner broadcasts for CBS, he pockets $900 a week. Tall, well-proportioned and active-looking, Elmer Davis wears grey or pepper-&-salt suits to match his grey hair, looks very un-Elmer-like except for his invariable little black bow ties. Many consider him a dead ringer for handsome Hoosier Paul V. McNutt, but Elmer Davis, turning 50 last week, saw another resemblance. Said he: "Now people think I look more like Cordell Hull...