Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tenant farmer. Slim Summerville ended up in one of the key dramatic parts; the Three Stooges and Mickey Rooney were unfortunately unavailable, so the Esquire hillbilly roles written for them were given to lesser-known great actors. Will Hays found nothing to censor, and the Governor of Georgia's sole complaint was that the state's fine peaches weren't given a plug. Others who read the book or saw the play will find "Tobacco Road," the picture, one of the funniest slapstick comedies of the year--the most disappointing Hollywood product since the flickers declared themselves...
...word for the Bruins. Their second line, almost as good as the Krauts, has Centre Bill Cowley, at week's end the league's leading scorer (15 goals, 44 assists). Their third line is not to be sneezed at. Neither is Defense Man Dit Clapper, sole remaining star of the Bruins' championship 1929 team, who has a better than even chance to end up the season with the league's Hart (most valuable player) trophy. Only native American on the team is Goalie Frank ("Kid Zero") Brimsek, of Eveleth, Minn., who as a rookie three seasons...
Next day, Mr. Schappes told the committee that when he resigned he was the sole surviving Communist at the college. To the witness stand then marched a spectacled City College instructor named William Martin Canning, who barked: "Schappes undoubtedly has forgotten." Mr. Canning spent two full days refreshing Mr. Schappes's memory. (Retorted Schappes: "An impostor!") Testifying that he himself had been a member of the Communist unit for two years, Canning named 50 fellow members, among them the college registrar, John Kenneth Ackley, known in the party as Jake. About one-half of one per cent...
Dudley's 6 to 1 victory over Leverett secured for them third place for the season. Reagan (3), Lawson (2), and MacDonald accounted for all the victors' goals while McConville tallied the sole Bunny counter...
...Thereupon the fight between the survivors got really hot. While they squabbled along, FCC tried to figure out which station was best equipped to take over, discovered that WCNW was continually wobbling off its frequency, was operated as haphazardly as a Model T. Thereupon FCC decided to give WWRL sole right to the frequency it once shared with the others...