Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale team as it played Saturday is far superior to any eleven that Harvard has shown so far this year both offensively and defensively. On the attack Yale has the edge merely because of Booth, who is spark, guiding hand, and the executor of the Eli offensive--in fact, he is the offense. Without him it is hard to determine just how the Blue would stack up, since most of the other backs, with the possible exception of Crowley, would rank no higher individually than any that Harvard can offer. But with Booth playing the whole game...
...pointing for all the while. Last Saturday there was a particular lack of coordination in the backfield especially on the passes and today would be the time to make the plays click. But with Mays out the laterals will not get a fair try because he is obviously the spark of the sidewise toss...
...resources, the rumors of Russia's dealing on the world wheat market, the bickering in the League, China's militarism, Japan's watchful waiting, the naval break between France and Italy, the international tariff blockades, all these things and many more, make these days portentous. Sarajevo was but a spark, and there are signs of internal combustion the world over...
...dialog or situation makes this picture sparkle, yet it sparkles; its story is unremarkable, yet continuously entertaining. It concerns a prizefighter who loses an important fight because he takes seriously an opponent who tells him his shoe is untied. Later, having returned to his original profession of spark-plug cleaning, he plays polo for his home-town team and makes love to a society girl. Jack Oakie performs these activities with the necessary absurdity, and with wonderfully skillful, probably unconscious character reading. Like all true comedians, his fooling is human and remotely pathetic. Typical shot : Oakie composing a song...
...spark commonly supposed to have lit the conflagration in Jerusalem on Aug. 23, 1929, was described as from the beginning an attack by Arabs on Jews, for which the Commission could find no excuse in the form of earlier Jewish attacks on Arabs...