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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ernest Torrence), dismissed at last by the girl he has made famous?come to life in an imaginary country filled with splendid metaphors. Director Charles Brabin has translated these metaphors into concrete objects and scenery which give the cinema a reality not possible in written words. The emotional pitch of the story?a pitch originally far and not always convincingly above the pitch of prose life?becomes merely the concentration necessary for getting so many lives and deaths into the hour-and-a-quarter of a feature picture. A sermon clipping the beginning and the end of the action makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...southpaw Nekola will not pitch today after his feat of Thursday, when he shut out Boston College and held that team to a lone safety. Dobens, however, who twirled the Crusaders last year to victory over Harvard, may start, and will almost certainly see action if the Crimson bats get going. Coach Barry indicated last night that he might start Hebert, who held the Quantico Marines to three scattered singles, or the portsided Sims. In case the latter is called upon for mound duty, B. H. Ticknor '31 will play the center garden, but if a right hander pitches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY NINE ENTERS CRUSADER TILT AS UNDERDOG | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

White will probably pitch for the visitors, with Pool being held in the relief role. The former has a reputation for pitching six or seven innings of brilliant ball and weakening in the eighth. Pool has pitched two good games this year, one against Providence College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEAK GEORGETOWN NINE ENCOUNTERS TEAM HERE TODAY | 5/28/1929 | See Source »

...ninth inning with the Pennsylvanians holding a 7 to 4 lead. The initial and keystone sacks were occupied by pinch-hitter Ketchum and Nugent as McGrath connected with one of Hensil's curves for a smashing single, scoring Ketchum. Captain Donaghy lined out the next pitch to send the diminutive second baseman across the rubber and the tying counter to the hot corner. As the visiting hurler started working on Prior, one of the Crimson's leading sluggers, the Harvard leader put himself in a position to score the winning run by stealing second. The first pitch went wild...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD RALLY IN NINTH FALLS SHORT | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

...base hits--Nugent, Donaghy. Three-base hits--Nugent, Donaghy, Carney. Sacrifice hits--McGrath, Gilligan. Stolen bases--Chimenti, Gilligan. Bases on balls--off MacHale 3, off Murberg 4, off Carney 2. Hit by pitched ball--by Murberg (Nugent). Wild pitch--Carney. Umpires--Janvrin and Stafford. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE POUNDS' OUT WIN OVER MAROON IN RAGGED GAME | 5/15/1929 | See Source »

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