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With what is believed to be the highest score ever registered in House football competition, Eliot swept over a powerless Lowell eleven 72 to 0, on Soldiers Field yesterday. The triple threat combine of Johnny Boyce, Gene Brannigan, and Herb Eckenrath proved, behind a forward line of granite, unstoppable to the bewildered Bellboys. Eliot's forward march began in the first period, and continued uninterrupted throughout the entire battle...
...underpinning its energetic diplomacy with the sword, and the Communists were powerless to prevent...
...series of top-notch new musical numbers, sweetened with the soft-shoe rhythms and barbershop harmonies of the period. But even such authentic musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft's dalliance with the snobbish Nob Hill hussy, Harriet Carruthers (Joan Ben-nett...
...police force was powerless. Wearing stolen fur coats and clutching pilfered dresses and shoes under their arms, drunken girls were convoyed by drunken sailors. Three sailors went through the broken window of a furniture store and climbed into bed. Typewriters were gaily smashed. One sailor kicked in a window, sheared off his toes. Another severed an artery while punching through the window of a brewery. Fires swept through a women's-wear shop, a drugstore, a jewelry shop. Firehose was uncoupled or cut as soon as it was laid...
...editor of the London Times H. de Vere Stacpoole wrote: "Sir: What are powerless politics, and how do they function and what do they...