Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compromise on an ending. They wanted what they call an upbeat ending. I didn't see how I could do it, but, of course, I realized that if I didn't, someone else would . . . There's no use going out there with a chip on your shoulder. After all, it is an industry...
During the last 15 years, while he "gambled my money away" on dice and the stock market, Schulberg has watched his jobs shrink in importance. Finally, he began haunting cinemoguls' anterooms looking for a job. Says he: "I got the cold shoulder." His open letter offered some explanation: "Some of my friends who are not top executives tell me that doors are closed because I have in my time talked back to some of the big boys...
...Purple's defensive standouts are Co-Captain Tom Kelleher, a two-way end and a regular for three years, and Bill DeChard, who backs up the line. Kelleher is still nursing a knee injury; DeChard saw little action last year because of a shoulder bruise, but shone as a freshman two years...
...more relaxed colleagues. Their grudging admiration is mixed with wonder at the chances he takes. In 1934, prowling in St. Paul, he stepped right into a gun fight between policemen and two robbers who were holding up a milk company. A policeman's bullet went through the shoulder padding of Presbrey's coat, wounded a robber...
Half-time found the Dartmouth cheering stands being serenaded by the Crimson band. It had been announced previously that the visiting stands would get the cold shoulder from the musical organization. They got the serenade, all right, but the big bass drum was left behind. The Harvards were playing it safe...