Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slick publications proves that there is a paying public interested in education and self-improvement. This fact will not forever be lost to advertisers. We have in recent times seen the decline of the supposedly eternal gag type of humor, and its slow replacement by the situation comedy of Morgan and Fred Allen. The quiz shows and soap operas are wearing thin in their turn. When sponsors do realize that the American's concern with his personal inadequacies is not limited to "cathartics and mouth-washes," and turn their shame-on-you technique to exposing airpockets in his education...
Dunster--p., Ames; c., Smart; 1b., Flynn; 2b., Aldrich; s.s., Steven; 3b., Torrey; r.f., Lewis; c.f., Murphy; l.f., Morgan; s.s., Rich. Lowell--p., Brown; c., Bowditch; 1b., Broad; 2b., Silver; s.s., Gardner; 3b., Guild; l.f., Spear; c.f., Richardson; c.f., Lane; r.f., Wales, Heinrichs...
...abbey, a group of U.S. sponsors had organized as the Friends of Monte Cassino. They included Swarthmore's ex-President Dr. Frank Aydelotte, Harvard's classicist Professor E. K. Rand, Princeton's medievalist Dr. E. A. Lowe (who had studied at Monte Cassino) and Morgan Librarian Dr. Belle da Costa Greene. They had issued a statement, conveying "to the Abbot and monks of Monte Cassino, now in exile, the expression of our sorrow and sympathy in this hour of tragedy and trial. We . . . ardently wish to contribute our mite to hasten the day of its reconstruction...
...night a week they take in a movie. The other evenings, while Fred works, Portland reads or knits in bed-an old vaudeville custom. They rarely entertain. Allen's best friends are "just plain people"-barbers, shoeshine boys, paper boys, waiters, delicatessen storekeepers. With them, says Comic Henry Morgan, he is "a reluctantly amiable guy." From them, he collects an authentic U.S. idiom...
Yardling Hugh Smith and crewman Temple Morgan topped the evening's card, and, in an excellent boxing exhibition, Morgan outpointed the Carolinian to annex the 165-pound crown. Wigglesworth's 135-pound Russ Bath and John Dwyer of Thayer raced through three fast rounds, with wily, polished-looking Bath taking the honors...