Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DeMille has provided plenty of gorgeous scenery for all the actors to chew on, and has filmed his spectacular scenes with technical virtuosity and boundless gusto. Even lovers of cinematic art who recognize Samson and Delilah as a run-of-DeMille epic should enjoy it as a simple-minded spree. In its way, it is as much fun as a robust, well-organized circus...
Leverett clinched third place in the House football league yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field by tieing Kirkland 6 to 6. Meanwhile Lowell unleashed a four-touchdown scoring spree against Dudley, winning...
...frankly admitted by the students and the dean's office, and is hallowed by age-old traditions like freshman dinks. It is memorialized each year by a "cane spree," which starts as a series of wrestling contests between freshmen and sophomores, and traditionally degenerates into free-for-all pandemonium...
...reform that left his critics gasping. He built schools, playgrounds and beaches; he hired new doctors for the city hospital; he extended the transit systems and pulled down old elevated lines, making thousands of jobs. When the banks in Boston refused to lend him money for this spending spree, he bolted traditions and borrowed from banks all over the country. Those were the days when newspaper editorials hailed him as the first great leader to emerge from the Boston Irish...
...Elephants opened their scoring spree early in the first perod when tackle John Cowles pounced on a Leverett fumble in its own end zone. After this first touchdown the Bunnies kept the Eliot T in check until an Eliot interception laid the way for Rick Hudner's 20-yard dash for the second score...