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Word: scene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until the last towel of the last squad member out of the showers is picked up is their competition at an official close. All through the customary locker-room scene of jubilation or dejection they will be seen scurrying about their duties, still competing. All around them will be an atmosphere of broken discipline, as their zero hour approaches. Finally, Manager Bob Whitman '38, will call them into the Jayvee Coaches room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Managerial Candidates Will Learn Their Fates Today After Game | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

BERKELEY, CALIF. Nov. 19: On the eye of the 41st Stanford-California football game, 3,000 students and numerous graduates and townspeople got out of hand following the annual pre-game rally. $10,000 damage and numerous injuries resulted before the celebrants left for Palo Alto, scene of the encounter. The rioters pushed automobiles into theater lobbies and derailed trolley cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stanford-California Melee | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

Even with the entrance upon the scene of an enthusiastic and sympathetic female, purblind to college traditions and feuds, the tension was unrelieved. Crossing Dillon Field, Cousin Arthur espied the red jerseys of Crimson players. "Rather conservative up here, aren't you?" he asked Uncle Henry. The West Virginia lass said: "Why, I would say red was a very bright color and quite pretty, wouldn't you?" Cousin Arthur stared a little closer at the picture of Captain Frank in the H.A.A. News. Suddenly the Vagabond conceived a way to quiet three birds with one slap. "Pardon me," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

Bates, returned in September from the scene of battle, traced the internal development of the loyalist army, which he says has transformed it from a manse of political factions, to an integrated unit, capable of concerted aggression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOYATISTS WILL WIN, SPAIN NEVER FACIST AVERS NOVELIST BATES | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

Principal difficulty apparently rises from the inclusion of too many stars. As the play producer, Robert Taylor appears in a new suit in every other scene, but isn't really allotted time to gather momentum for any convincing love-making. Eleanor Powell has too few moments for her tapping specialty; George Murphy, singer of songs, finds himself trying rather unsuccessfully to follow Miss Powell's steps; Robert Benchley doesn't say anything really funny. Only Buddy Ebsen is himself, bit player and stealer of shows...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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