Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Betty Smith, whose best-selling A Tree Grows in Brooklyn became a best-selling Hollywood movie, was off to the Alps to write a scenario for Swiss producer Lozar Wechsler. She had "no idea" what the story would be about, said she, but "I accepted Mr. Wechsler's offer because I like the kind of pictures he makes. His actors are not silly like Hollywood's . . . and there is none of this dreadful sex business in his movies...
...rector of St. Paul's School was a man whose voice was sonorous and whose sentiments had style. St. Paul's boys, who called him "The Drip" long before that phrase had its present teenage connotation, never took him to their hearts, but educators knew Dr. Samuel Smith Drury as a man whose broadsides usually struck home. His bustling, benign successor, the Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, has neither style nor sonority, but he too hits his target. Last week, speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration at Connecticut's Choate School, Dr. Nash took...
...Thomas Browne called them "vulgar errors." Said Francis Bacon: "Men rest not in false apprehensions without absurd and inconsequent deductions." As Essayist Logan Pearsall Smith put it, even the most lucid brains harbor "nests of woolly caterpillars...
Phil Potter, Gaston Azcarraga, and Bob Smith each blasted in a kick, and the Varsity led 3 to 1 with 38 minutes left to play. Tufts came fighting back, however, and Feeney got his team's second goal with two minutes left to go in the third period. The fourth period found both teams pretty well worn out from playing in the sizzling heat, and the play settled down to a ragged defensive battle with Bob Purinton and Dick Forster, the Crimson fullbacks, and Dick Harshman, the goalie, saving several potential goals...
...forward line will not lack replacements, however, being two deep at every position. For his right wing MacDonald will start Bob Smith or Jose del Rio with Gaston Azcarraga opening at the inside right slot. Last week's high scorer, Phil Potter, will again be at center forward, with his running mate, captain Carlos Blanco at left inside. Either Bill Dawson or Arnold Corrigan will be on the left wing...