Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity's second play from scrimmage, Coach Dick Harlow ordered on off-tackle slant, with Captain Vince Maravee carrying the mail. Vince dashed 51 yards to the Green and Gold's 26 yard marker before being pulled down from behind. Two plays later the Crimson scored...
Renter's Slant...
...nubbin of this situation is really easy to understand if we approach it from a different slant...
Zechariah Chafee patiently countered: to omit censorship from its discussions would leave the conference "playing Hamlet without a Prince of Denmark." Lomakin smiled. Chafee conceded that some U.S. newspapers might slant the news or be guilty of inaccuracies and omissions, but Government selection of what is news "could be equally wrong." He smiled wryly at Lomakin as he quoted Russia's Leo Tolstoy: "The thought of censorship hangs over me like a cloud, and the years slip by with nothing done...
...Hecht screenplay is Adolph Menjou playing a Hollywood producer whose movies nosedive until he meets a wholesome miss (Andrea Leeds) with the proper pedestrian slant concerning what the public wants. She becomes his private consultant--"Miss Humanity"--on the plain citizen's tastes in story twists. Instructions explicitly forbid her mingling in film colony circles where she might "go Hollywood;" one night she dares venture into a hamburger wagon where Kenny Baker sings while he flips ("love walked right in . . . and drove the shadows away") in a romantic golden voice custom-built for Mr. Plain Citizen. Sugar daddy Menjou gets...