Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generation it is generally taken for granted in New York that assaults upon and fabrications about Tammany are intended for political capital in other sections of the country, where the present-day Tammany is unknown, and where the traditions of what happened half a century ago may pass current as of today...
...wretched Recea switchman, who should have sidetracked the local-express to let the Orient pass, promptly took to the woods. So did the rest of the Recea station crew, after locking up their station. Seemingly they thought that when the hand of the Rumanian Justice fell it would be merciless, perhaps indiscriminate...
...point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants to pass a bar of chocolate to his baby...
...three most outstanding features of the games were a field goal kicked by W. B. Wood '32 standing on the enemy 30-yard line in the first quarter; a 60-yard run by J. W. Crickard '32 in the third period; and the spectacular handling of a pass and subsequent dash for a touchdown by W. A. Beyer '32, in the last quarter...
...this field that one discordant note rises. Amidst all this soft speaking the casting of the younger brother of the heroine has been such that the actor speaks in the nasal accent of toity-told street. This is really to be regretted as it is thoroughly jarring to pass from the melody of Helen Hayes to the harshness and total lack of southern accent of a supposed brother as impersonated by Andrew Lawlor...