Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 35 minutes of play, it became evident that Holy Cross was in for setback No.2 from its fellow Jesuits. Frisky St. Louis U., with a 23-point lead, calmly took out its regulars and began filling in with subs. Even the subs were hot shots. Before the game ended, nearly everybody on the Billikens' bench got a chance to play, and Holy Cross went down with a crash, 61 to 46. St. Louis U., which hadn't had an athletic team of any kind to cheer about since 1906,* had quietly developed one of the best college...
...kind notices encouraged Peck and interested Hollywood enormously. The young actor earnestly wanted to become a good artist in a good Broadway play. But after three flops in a row, he began to feel that a little ready money, quickly made, would be very nice indeed-so long as it was clearly understood by everyone that after one picture he was going straight back to Broadway...
...intricate in plot and pattern-there are four interlocking triangles, and hints of two more-that only an inspired talent for drama and for characterization could have saved it from obvious artificiality. No such talent is in evidence; nor has Producer David O. Selznick improved matters in his screen play. The only characters who come sharply to life are the barrister's wife (Ann Todd) and her confidante (Joan Tetzel); some of the others are acted with solid skill (by Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore), but they remain lay figures-interested but lifeless participants in a rigid, theatrical...
...space-grabbing technique shrewdly took account of the Western editor's sense of fair play: even if he had a pretty good idea of who was doing what to whom, he printed the letter rather than behave like an editor of Pravda, who certainly wouldn't. Thus the London Times had published two such letters (signed "S. Marshak, Ulitsa Chkalova 14/16, Apt. 113, Moscow") without comment or caveat. The editors were over a barrel: they could neither prove nor brand the letters an outright forgery...
...sell a Harvard team short, they say. And they remind you of the crazily effective Harvard defenses that once prompted a confused Pennsylvania quarterback to call across the line of scrimmage that if you follows will only keep still for a minute, I'll be able to call a play." Harlow was a great November coach, they say. And they single out a November Saturday in 1937 when Yale arrived in Cambridge boasting Clint Frank and an undefeated season, and left the Stadium on the upside down end of a 13-6 score. They have said more. So much...