Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everybody Does It" (perish the name) is supposed to be an hilariously funny movie. Nunnally Johnson, who wrote the script, carefully avoided all opportunities for other than comic effects. This singleness of purpose makes it easy for the reviewer to pass judgment--the movie is not funny, hence it is worthless...
Receiving the opening kickoff deep in their own territory, Eliot started a down-field march which brought them to the Adams 32. With a fourth down and eight yards to go it appeared that their attack bad stalled, but a desperation pass, Jim Lowell to Major Close, clicked to the Adams six yard line. Jim Rossiter took the ball off tackle for the score and Lowell's conversion made the score seven to nothing...
Eliot struck again after they intercepted an Adams' pass on their own 48. A series of straight line plays brought the ball to the one yard stripe and Rossiter again bucked over. Lowell's second conversion boosted the total to 14 points...
Scoring twice, Frank Hernberg led the Winthrop House Puritans to their five-touchdown rout of Dunster. Hernberg tallied once on an intercepted pass and again on an off-tackle slant from the three. Two blocked kicks and a down-field drive accounted for Winthrop's other scores...
Adams may produce a secret weapon in the form of fullback Guck Mahoney, who has announced that be may play tomorrow in spite of hour exams this week and lack of practice. Mahoney, former netfolk, Virginia, Naval Base star, is reputed to have thrown a 70-yard pass in his first intra-service game and can run 100-yards in ten seconds...