Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following this practice scrimmage, Coach Harlow formed a team of players from both "B" and "C" units to face a similar mongrel Yardling aggregation. With assistant Freshman coach Nick Mellen providing words of advice and encouragement, the Yardlings held the Varsity boys virtually at a standstill for about 30 minutes...
...differs very little from the ignorance of the vast majority of those who are able to pay the tax. How can this letter have been more than a wicked, heartless gibe at the poll-taxers. Hucy Long, who Mr. Davis says, is the arch type of political mongrel wafted to power by the illiterate and pitiable, was so wafted originally by persons paying such taxes. Next door to the bayou state, the great state of Texas whose elections have not seen the blemish of free voting for these many years, presents a noble line of public officials in support...
...Gangster Earle's character. Superbly played by Actor Bogart, Earle is a complex human being, a farmer boy who turned mobster, a gunman with a string of murders on his record who still is shocked when newsmen call him "Mad-Dog" Earle. He is kind to the mongrel dog (Zero) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer (Ida Lupino) who becomes his moll, goes out of his way to help a crippled girl (Joan Leslie). All Roy Earle wants is freedom. He finds it for good on a lonely peak in the mountains...