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Taxi (Warner). If you have seen The Public Enemy, Smart Money or Blonde Crazy, you have some idea what to expect of Taxi. Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright are camera-minded writers and their stories, which usually deal in an offhand way with violent happenings, have speed, vigor and assurance. Fortunately for all concerned, James Cagney attracted Hollywood's attention at about the same time as Authors Bright and Glasmon. When he appears in one of their inventions the result is often brilliantly successful...
Lining up today's game with Dartmouth is not so easy as might first appear. Offhand one would be tempted to give the Crimson heavy odds against its Big Green opponent, but Dartmouth has two good reasons for not doing so, namely, Bill McCall and Bill Morton...
...match was as long as it was close, the shooting lasting from 11 o'clock yesterday morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Each team fired one round offhand, one sitting, and two prone. J.B. Gregg '31, acting secretary of the Harvard marksmen, announced last night that the next meet for the Crimson team will be on May 13, when it will compete with the Boston College shooters...
...Macon, Ga., small, withered John Joshua Beasley of Auburn, Ga., 71, claimed he had sired 40 children, discoursed on his progeny: "I can't recall them offhand, but all 40 are on record at the court house. Now some of them died before we could think up names for them, so they were never named. . . . There was Molly, Florence, Mandy, John Will, Joe, Norm, E. T., Ola, Claudie and Cloodie. . . . I can't think of another one in the first batch." With John Joshua Beasley were his second wife and their youngest child, aged 18 months...
...ceremony Biographer Forester attributes Louis le Grand's two great failures. Excellently planned, the military campaign against William of Orange, and the diplomatic war for the Spanish succession, were both on the verge of sensational success, when Louis stopped to evolve an elaborate finish, instead of clinching matters offhand...