Word: smackingly
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Coached by Butch Kissell, who used to smack the line for Boston College, the Sailors have flattened two Boston Park League teams so far this season. Their T-formation attack is especially tailored to fit the capabilities of a bruising fullback named Yarborough, formerly of the University of North Carolina, Halfback Arnold is expected to toss most of the passes for the Navy team. Although the Jayvees were undefeated last year, Coach Boston expects that the going will be rougher this season...
Hope of seeing 15 ex-paratroopers out-jump all comers right smack into the Yale Bowl this November faded last night when Jay Skinner '48 said the band would stick to drills and music...
...what appeared to be acid caricatures of contemporary governmental officials. (Rivera explained that any resemblances were coincidental: "It's only because living people frequently run to type.") But few could fail to be charmed by the portrait of the artist as a messy little fat boy, standing smack in the center of his own creation. Young Rivera kept a dead snake and a bullfrog in his pockets, carried an eagle-headed umbrella and held hands with a grownup skeleton lady, dressed to kill. Just before he signed the mural, the aging artist's finishing touch was to broaden...
With a threadbare story and a total lack of spectacular sunsets, or five-minute chases, Carol Red and his crew have filmed twenty-four hours of a lost cause with the realistic effort of a smack in the face. The dialogue bears the dewey stamp of the auld sod; the characterizations are revealing without being talkative; and the scenes are put together to make sense, not to elicit sentiment. The widely varied personages are portrayed with a concentration of acting that make each distinctive. The film strains the emotions, but, thanks to British restraint, net the imagination...
...Krisp ands criminal diet for the occasion, does quite well as the gentleman whose ideas of life are set in cement, and he is an excellent straight-man to his prodigal wife. Some of the best scenes between these two, especially those concerned with financial discussions, smack of the show which made father famous. But, since satire is not a strong point of the story, practically all enjoyment must be derived from pure humor--the humor of witty remarks and comic situations. The few celebrated bon mots which the head of the Day family utters are good in any company...