Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best performance of the first week was turned in by Doctor Blue Willing's kennel-mate, Air Pilot Sam. This handsome pointer found five coveys and one single, but made a false point and obeyed none too well for his famed handler, Ed Farrior. The judges also liked Golfer Glenna Collett Vare's Tips's Manitoba Jake and G. M. Livingstone's Shanghai Express, called them back for a run-off when the first series was over. Shanghai started off with a false point, handled one covey with style and finish, then sinned heinously by flushing...
...evening, "Sea Devils," goes in for the usual he-man McLaglen activities with the Coast Guard offering a convenient excuse for several good shots of icebergs, ships in distress, breeches buoy, and dozens of manly blows between the smiling Tim O'Shay, (Preston Foster) and Bo'suns Mate Malone (McLaglen). Ida Lupino as "Doris," Malone's daughter, acts as a rather insipid if adequate apex of the eternal triangle over which Malone, the father, tries to exercise parental influence. In spite of the overworked sickbed, hero, and may-the-best-man-win falderol the picture is satisfactory and fills...
When the Head overreached himself by abolishing the school's most cherished holiday, it was all Mr. Donkin could do to control his muttering minions. It was more than he could do when his feminine wards took a hand in the revolt. Triumphantly the Head proclaimed a check mate; sadly Mr. Donkin acknowledged it. prepared to quit the field like a man. At the last moment, by literary chicanery worthy of P. G. Wodehouse, the day was saved for everyone concerned...
...certainly the arrival of a room mate with three or more pairs of skis on a Sunday evening does not tend to improve either one's own or the biddle's good humor. Commercialism always wins out in this country of ours. And the fashion trades and the sporting goods stored being so firmly intrenched in the coils of the new slippery sport, we may never see the end of it. One can at least be grateful that most skiers retire themselves at the age of 70. Official action is not necessary to speed up the descent. THERSITES...
...much-married tend to mate with the much-married...