Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five men won roles in the production after a series of tryouts which lasted for three days. John C. Haggott '35, President of the Club, announced that the following men had received roles: Marston S. Leonard '35 will play the part of "Nick"; Donald Stevens 1G will play "Ned"; Henry W. Engel '35 will play "Edward"; Richard Sullivan '35 will play "Johnny"; and Frederick M. Miller '37 will play "Seton Cram...
...forehand, and making costly double faults. After it was over (8-6. 6-3, 6-2), Vines refrained from claiming the legitimate alibi that he had had less than a week's practice indoors. Said he: "Yeah, he fixed me tonight. But maybe I'll nick him for a set down at Philadelphia for a starter." Nick him, Vines did in Philadelphia- for just one set. Staying on the base line most of the time Vines showed better than in Manhattan, ran the match to four sets. 6-4, 8-10, 9-7, 6-3. Next night...
...Nick Charles had been a private detective, had gladly retired when he married a well-to-do wife. Junketing in Manhattan with his congenial spouse (like all good Hammett characters, Nick is a dogged, early-&-late drinker), he finds himself gradually dragged into an annoying mystery. Clyde Wynant, half-crazy but successful inventor, a onetime client of Nick's, has awkwardly disappeared just when his secretary-mistress has been murdered. Wynant's lawyer, Wynant's remarried ex-wife both want him found, think Nick is the man for the job. But Nick is having too good...
...whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick of time, secret sleigh journeys on the Baltic ice, wolves, and various other escapes from famine, sword and fire...
...touchdowns, thanks to Quarterback '"Beany" Johnson and Halfback "Texas Jack" Buckler. The outcome seemed so certain that nobody worried much when both Buckler's kicks for extra point failed. The break came in the final period after a march from midfield. Notre Dame's smiling Halfback Nick Lukats ripped through and around Army's line, did not stop until he had rammed over Army's goal. Quarterback Bonar kicked the extra point. A few minutes later Lukats sent a prodigious kick 70 yd. to Army's 8-yd. line where Notre Dame...