Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mercifully, the script omits the standard love interest. As if only for the record, it briefly establishes Ladd's romantic prowess in a token dalliance with Stewart's blonde mistress (well played by Jan Sterling). The real leading lady is a nun (Phyllis Calvert) who needs his protection as the only witness to the murder. Inspector Ladd, who usually measures his fellow man with cynical suspicion, soon finds himself softening under the example of her unselfish sense of duty. At this late date, moviegoers should not be surprised to learn that Nun Calvert wears lipstick and coaches baseball...
...success of all its activities is based on this House solidarity. Kirkland House's perpetual possession of the Straus trophy is not due to the vast prowess of an athletic elite, but sheer numbers...
Cartoonist Vicky last week recalled Shakespeare's description in King Henry V of the night before the battle of Agincourt, as Frenchmen stood around camp fires discussing the prowess that their English foes drew from a beef diet (see cartoon). Vicky did not think it necessary to remind Britons of the Duke of Orleans' comment: "Ay, but these English are shrewdly* out of beef...
Funds for the awards were made available to the College at the classes' 50th and 25th reunions respectively, last June, Allan H. W. Higgins '25, chairman of his class reunion, told the CRIMSON at that time that the 1925 award would go to students "who show prowess in athletics and other non-scholastic affairs and who meet the College's regular entrance requirements...
...Tolerance Snob ("has a special predilection for getting his name printed on letterheads"), the Pot Luck Snob (Casserole Division), the Great-Out-of-Doors Snob, the Freudian Snob ("I have more inhibitions than anyone"), the Efficiency Snob ("answers the phone by barking just his last name"), the Physical Prowess Snob, the Eternal Verities Snob (Back to the Land Division), the Conservative Dress Snob ("The buttons on the sleeves of his jacket actually unbutton...