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...goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from the ranks, but switched to the right side of the tracks via a stretch at night law school, decides to take Derek's case...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...fullback positions Rick Drake and Mike Scully have played all of the close games. Both are oven 6' 2'' and as a Dartmouth forward said, "They run like gazelles." Scully played fullback last fall for the Crimson while two years ago Drake played at Cornell...

Author: By Robert Cahswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

...trying tp stow it back in the loft. In about two minutes the place begins to put on a very good imitation of purgatory, for the sun is beating down mercilessly on a tin roof over your head, and the loft is one big black Stifling oven. I wish I had thought a little about that cow barn, back in the days when I was committing so many sins, in the world. It might have given me pause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mystics Among Us | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Chuck roast is our weekend standby. We brown it slowly in an old-fashioned iron Dutch oven or heavy aluminum roaster. Bacon drippings, onions, celery tops, bay leaves, parsley, salt & pepper add flavor. When the meat is browned on both sides I add a little water, cover tightly, and let it barely simmer on top of the stove for about three hours, occasionally adding a little more water. Potatoes, carrots and celery are steamed on top of the roast during the last hour and a half . . . Roast and vegetables [make] a Sunday dinner for at least four people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...Hundreds of migrating thrushes, oven-birds, warblers, redstarts, and red-eyed vireos got lost in the fog and crashed into the Empire State Building, littering the street below with dead and injured birds. Others thumped into tall structures in Baltimore and Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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