Word: sot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Priest (Fox). Best shot in this picture: a tippled old juror, in the final courtroom scene, after expectorating an ample supply of tobacco juice loudly and accurately into a spittoon, describing how he contrived to hook the stream around a table leg to reach its mark.* The sot is one of the minor characters who, together with shambling, inarticulate Stepin Fetchit (TIME, March 12), supply most of the comedy relief...
...CRIMSON lauds this toleration on the part of the old city. Psychologists and sociologists of the modern school unite in pointing out the dangers of unsublimated repression. The Back Bay is protected, the Scollay Square sot, and the inquisitive college boys are taken care of Bostonia...
...course it is Johnny Dean who is looked to for the Crimson's only first place. He should easily win the discus throw, and Jack Healey is pretty well sot for second. Just this one event will give Harvard nine points. Dean should pick up another point in the shot. The javelin throw will add three move for John Harvard...
...Metropolitan Opera to retirement, tried a comeback during the introduction of celebrity-guests at the opening of the supper club in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. In a pause between phrases of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," a coin clattered at her feet, flipped by a sot. Mary Lewis stooped, picked up the coin, finished her song amid tremendous applause...
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