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...corners sharply, rose ten minutes earlier (at 5:50) than upperclassmen and studied each evening until 10:30, sat on the front half of his chair at mess, called out the minutes before assembly, walked sentry duty, ran mes sages, carried mail. And always he stood ready to reel off the prescribed answers to upperclassmen's badgering questions...
...society accords Presidents' unmarried daughters. Washington beaux dated her steadily. (To get her callers into the White House she had to leave their names, identifications and expected times of arrival with guards at the gates.) Escorted by Army Captain Everett Walk of Philadelphia, she led a spirited Virginia reel at the Pan American Union's anniversary dance...
...from TVA lakes each year, Eschmeyer argued that the fishing should be best at a time when fishing was not permitted-during April and May. Last week thousands of fishermen were inclined to agree with him: they were taking advantage of a stretch of balmy Tennessee Valley weather to reel in heavy hauls of crappie and large-and smallmouth bass...
...comparison with "Lassie Come Home" is inevitable, since the two pictures are so similar. Though on a more thrilling and exciting scale than its predecessor, "National Velvet" occasionally suffers from poor directing, with the result that continuity tends to suffer somewhat, especially in the last reel. Otherwise it is a creditable and enjoyable production...
Live subjects and animated caricatures do not mix, and it is this fusion of flesh and fantasy which tends to create lopsided sequences, most notably in the last reel. As a result, "Three Caballeros" emerges as a somewhat confused, aimless travelogue on Mexico with Donald Duck or the sadistic penguin sharing the spotlight with Aurora Miranda or a beachful of Mexican bathing beauties...