Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many players were bumped up in the Brown fracas, but at this point Art Valpey is only willing to commit himself on the status of two men: John White and Dan Cass join Charlie Walsh as definitely ineligible to face the Elis. The doctors will release word on the other doubtfuls tomorrow...
...huge audience from the moment he strides onstage to the strains of Send the Great Revival in My Soul. His lapel microphone which gives added volume to his deep, cavernous voice, allows him to pace the platform as he talks, rising to his toes to drive home a point, clenching his fists, stabbing his finger at the sky and straining to get his words to the furthermost corners of the tent...
Krieg's research indicates that even when the transmission stations are permanently damaged, the brain is still capable of receiving and translating electrical impulses artificially applied. Thus, Krieg says, if a certain point at the back of the brain is stimulated, the patient will "see" a flash of light in a precise part of his visual field...
...company pension plan. Only 6% think the company should bear the entire cost. As for federal pensions, 89% would rather install company plans than pay for a major expansion of the Government's Social Security program. Growled One Midwest manufacturer: "Our whole system is degenerating to the point where something for nothing is a fad . . . The mad scramble is to be one of the fortunate few ... on the receiving end . . . Union leaders are playing the role of a master of ceremonies on a giveaway program...
...good old days of Rudolph Valentino and John Gilbert, said Novelist Banks, the typical woman, "a creature of emotion," found that the movies gave her emotions an enjoyable vicarious workout. Banks did not try to pin down the turning point, but many a student of the cinema thinks it was that shattering 1931 scene in which James Cagney pushed a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face. From that day on, the oldtime sleek romantic screen lover began going into eclipse...