Word: small
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most notable absentee from the first team was Army's Harry Stella, and small wonder, for he was mousetrapped to death when the Cadets came here, flat on his All-America face. Bob Brooks of Yale was the top tackle the Crimson met all year, and George Sommers of Dartmouth was right on his heels...
Those who admire Coffin poetry may be disappointed in his most recent prose attempt, for the chronicle of the Pennells is almost strictly a narrative with little room left for the author's creative talent. What poetic expressions there are occur only in small snatches. The book is a diary which relies on simplicity and authenticity for its effect...
...Alone (Warner Bros.) is a somewhat overlengthy, overwordy picturizing of James Hilton's cheery little novel of that name in which the only two pleasant characters get hanged. As an absent-minded young doctor in a small English village, Paul Muni (with a phony English accent) has a chance to act in mufti for a change, instead of doing one of those great impersonations (Pasteur, Zola, Juarez) in which he is aided by overmetic-ulous makeup and fussy mimicry. The doctor spends most of his spare time trying to keep his strict, pious, headachy wife (Flora Robson) from nagging...
...What A Life," with Jackie Cooper, is an unsuccessful small-town drama which might have gone over with a better script, faster-paced direction, fewer cliches, and Mickey Rooney...
...England, Zimmerman says is the "treasure-house of American memories," and "if several millions of small community dwellers caunci make an ideal living from all these possibilities then America has lost its intellectual right to its possessions...