Word: repay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While people were still moving out of the Stadium Saturday, somebody wrote on the blackboard in the squad's dressing room last year's Princeton score, followed by "Here's where we repay our lumps."JOHNNY WEST is hoisted off his feet by JIM DEFFLEY, as Co-Captain TOM KELLEHER comes up for insurance...
Wagner feels that the city itself should own and operate such lots. By this plan, parking tolls could easily repay initial expenses and case the taxpayer's burden. Until this is accomplished, nothing looms in the immediate offing to ease his parking problem except more meters and new business and residential zoning laws. Many such laws now on the bocks require business establishments to supply parking space for a certain proportion of their trade. Large apartment houses are also supposed to allow one off-the-street parking space for every three occupants, but these and similar ordinances are constantly ignored...
...next two weeks, the HTW will offer Cambridge an opportunity to see its last and most enjoyable production, "The Tempest"--a production which manages to reap the full harvest of marvels contained in that play. They Workshop has never yet failed to repay, with interest, the exacting price Shakespeare demands of his actors. This is the last HTW show primarily because the leading members of the organization are graduating. But the HTW will continue to be a part of the local scene for some time to come. After a profitable season last summer operating Brattle Hall as a professional repertory...
...court Mindszenty again & again declared he was sorry for what he had done. When he admitted receiving dollar donations from abroad, and letting his subordinates sell them on the black market, he said: "I am sorry. I wish to repay the damage done to the Hungarian state...
Force of Evil (Enterprise; MGM) takes a long, unfavorable look at the numbers racket. Notoriously unprofitable for suckers, the racket also turns out to be unrewarding dramatically. A tough young shyster (John Garfield) gets himself neck-deep in crooked shenanigans. When he tries to repay his older and more honest brother (Thomas Gomez) for past favors, he only succeeds in getting the brother caught in the middle of a gang war. To prove fairly conclusively that the racket doesn't really pay, Garfield's passion for a pretty secretary (Beatrice Pearson) comes to a very...