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...matter what the language. And when the billboards in a rapt ecstatic way hailed the Garbo as she lured Robert Taylor to her by the scent of her camelias, we stepped inside the gates without an instant wasted. As a matter of fact Robert Taylor is a big slug: Garbo wouldn't need any flowers to draw us down the primrose path. But that's a matter for the Moviegoer; this is a botany story...
Lest Franklin Roosevelt feel that the magazine had attempted to slug him with a "weighted" poll, the Digest heartily added that it hailed "a magnificent President against whom it never uttered one word of partisan criticism. . . . The Digest does not editorialize...
...carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, metal-workers, and mechanics are in demand. Besides the customary machines the Maintenance Shops have engines that drill square holes, air pumps which suck away shavings, steam heaters to soften lumber, and knife-edge power wood cutters which, if misrun, could hurl a razor-like slug of tool steel right through the operator. Roofing, metal shaping, forging, pipe drilling, and key making, are some of the activities at the river-front shops. In the familiar yellow building can be done anything from covering shades to making cardboard pillars for Fogg...
Yale would never have played coeducational and nonexistent Texas State University if a New Haven office boy had not made a mistake. Since the invitation cannot be rescinded, Yale's press agent (Eddie Nugent) pounds out enthusiastic copy. Texas Coach Slug Winters (Jack Haley) is enthusiastic, too, until his tough wife Bessie (Patsy Kelly) fractures his star passer's leg. In time's nick Slug fills the gap with a barefoot Texas melon-grower named Amos (Stuart Erwin) who can toss a cantaloupe incredible distances, learns to do even better with a football. Despite the intervention...
...outrigger. The legs are kept closer together with the "inside leg," that nearest the oar, drawn up between the arms. It is thus easier to make a quick, even pull-though with plenty of leg drive. The former stroke was apt to be divided into two sections, a terrific slug at the catch and a weaker finish...