Word: plays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt Actress Cornell was sufficiently charmed by the part to shut her eye to the play. Ana allows her a fine actressy evening in black velvet and white brocade; she suffers, poor woman, almost as much as the audience. The other players have not so much roles as rigmaroles, which cannot be acted, but only hammed. Henry Daniell hams best, as the King...
...asking "After Davidson-Smith?" hit at the breather games on West Point's comparatively soft schedule. Making capital of West Point's unwillingness to play...
...Jake had the edge in other small ways, e.g., his placements were steadier and he had learned the value of the lob. Since he turned pro in 1947, Big Jake had also learned about eating. When the schedule called for six or seven nights of consecutive play, he filled up on late-afternoon steaks and topped off with egg-nogs. But he cut down on the calories when there were off-nights ahead. Said Kramer: "I think I'll tell the fellows at Forest Hills, 'When it rains, eat light...
...negotiations, the French had to drop their earlier demand that England supply a balance in Continental affairs to any strengthening of Germany. They see--as do the Germans--that England and the U.S. are bidding against the Russians for German friendship. They think the stakes are too high to play, since it will take a lot of yielding to match the Russian bid of a united Germany. They suspect a willingness in Britain and the U.S. to rearm Germany as an enemy of the East...
...effectively as it might have, and therefore, the Crimson resorted to more of a control-type game. In addition, Harvard's scoring trailed off at the end of both periods, a deplorable trend which marked most of last season's discombooberations. In the last two minutes of play, Tufts threw in eight points to the Crimson's three...