Word: robs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...younger years he had stage-door-johnnied Ethel Barrymore (with little success). But though she is sometimes astute about her idol ("He is 'over-engined' for peace perhaps but perfectly engined, I think, for war"), Winston Churchill remains for Phyllis Moir more Peter Pan than politico, more Rob Roy than statesman...
Last week, many a professional athlete and club owner had another war on his mind. The draft act put a horrid fear into the minds of sports promoters: that the draft would rob them of their bread winners. Recently loud Larry MacPhail, a World War I veteran who tried to kidnap the Kaiser after the Armistice, made a plea for his Brooklyn Dodgers, asked that ballplayers caught in the draft be deferred until the season's end. Otherwise, said he, they would lose two seasons' play -and pay. It has cost a fortune to build the team...
Last night they present a thrilling mystery, "The Man in Half-Moon Street" by the Englishman, Barre Lyndon. A scientist finds the way to immortality by transferal of glands. To carry on his experiments he is forced to rob and kill. In addition he falls in love only to find that immortality denies him the love of a mortal woman. During the action of the play he is planning a another robbery-murder to get the necessary glands. Considerable suspense is built up with Scotland Yard and a few minor crooks floating around. The lead is especially well acted...
...generations, none of whom get along too well together. And therein, decided Messrs. Thurber and Nugent, lies a tale. Their treatment of the struggle between Professor Tommy Thompson, played most appealingly by Elliott Nugent himself, and the various and sundry trustees and All-Americans who try to rob him of his intellectual freedom and his wife makes swell comedy...
...breaststroke event should also prove close. Flying 200 yards in a time of 2:41.4, George Simihtsi last year copped first place against the Crimson natators, beating out Rob White and Max Kraus. The same pair will splash tomorrow for the Ulenmen but the outcome is uncertain due to the rapid improvement of "Diesel" White...