Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University police security measures cannot be divulged, because that would spoil their objective, but if invaders from other universities want to get caught in our trap, let them try anything." Chief Alvin R. Randall asserted yesterday...
Yesterday the cameramen visited Beacon Hill and the Bunker Hill Monument, and today a second camera unit will continue on the Boston shots. Directors spent last night rewriting other Boston and Cape Cod scenes so that New England rain won't spoil plans...
Because Cornell is the champion and boasts eight letterman starters to the Crimson's six, the Big Red will be the favorite when the teams kick off at noon on the Business School Field. But Munro thinks the following factors may spoil upset...
...first time how the great tenor sounded as a great basso. For, pleased with his prank, Caruso had made a recording a few weeks later. Only six prints had been run off and Caruso had ordered the master copy destroyed. Said he: "I don't want to spoil the bass business." But one of the prints had been preserved by Dr. Mario Marafioti, onetime Met physician and friend of Caruso, and Narrator Wally (Voices That Live) Butterworth had persuaded him to let a new master be cut from his copy. He also persuaded Madame Alda to tell her story...
...they started rolling in Atlantic City, but it is still built along the same lines. It would be even better with tightening. The boys kid the orchestra, imitate each other, pour water on people's cigars, whisper secrets, shout non sequiturs at the mike, fight for its possession, spoil each other's jokes, order the customers to laugh, discuss them cattily when they don't-and altogether are apt to ramble on for two hours or more without a break. "We know how we're gonna get on," says Jerry, "but sometimes we wonder...