Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Give My Life" is pure melodrama at the end of which there should not be a dry eye in the audience. Tom Brown and Francis Drake are two love-birds who work in a gangsters' nigh-club. Comes a reform governor who cracks down on the underworld, and in self-defense the gangster suddenly reveals that Tom is his son, and that Tom's mother, believing him dead, is now the wife of the governor. Father and son square off, and Tom shoots down the dirty dog. Tom allows himself to be led to the gallows, refusing to tell...
...Jameson, and Booth on the right side of the line also played the best they have all year, Roberts, Wilson, and particularly McTernen, in the first half were responsible for Harvard's long march to the first touchdown. Roberts' passing under fire, and Don Daughter's reception were well nigh perfect...
...Unfinished Symphony" is a biographical interlude in the life of Franz Schubert. Technically and pictorially it is a well-nigh perfect production. And in addition, dexterously woven into the plot are selections from Schubert, including several of his most beautiful chorales and his Symphony in B Minor...
...tried it?" He hits the usually submissive attitude of the churches in war time and inquires why, if they will stand for murder at periodic intervals, they will not stand for adultery as well. His reasoning is pointed and quick and his facts so simple as to be well-nigh incontestable. He offers a plan for peace that might work--if it were ever tried...
...admitted fact that graduation is going to tear well nigh unfillable holes in the Varsity forces. Among those who will run their last races in the I.C.A.A.A.A. Meet and in the Olympic sectional trials--not many will go beyond them--are Milt Green, who has been good for three wins in any meet, Gerry Downer, Norm Cahners, Bob Hall, and Mal Millard...