Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first tested themselves, their arms and their creed of conquest against an occidental power. And, with 1905, it was the period when their hatred of the U.S., already born, was rooted in them. For it seemed to the Japanese that Teddy Roosevelt, waving the white man's big stick and dictating the Treaty of Portsmouth, saved the Russians' in Asia and robbed Japan of the full fruits of victory...
...typical U.S. success story (janitor's son to national hero), and Gary Cooper plays it with likable restraint. The film is somewhat overlong, repetitive, undramatic, but the facts stick reasonably close to Gehrig's life. The tone is entirely faithful. Gehrig had a stubborn vigor, a fine sense of sportsmanship, an honest belief in the copybook maxims. Cinemactor Cooper manages to suggest these qualities by being his shy, loping, American self. Cooper's right-handedness faced Hollywood with an appalling problem (Gehrig was a lefty). It was solved by having Cooper bowl, punch a bag, throw pebbles...
...answered. Thomas hit a low note, the bullfrog followed him. At last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next song, a beater was delegated to quell the disturber. Thomas lifted up his voice, the bullfrog chimed in. The beater cracked the water with his stick. The startled bullfrog shut his mouth. Singer Thomas opened his wider...
...What do they eat? Well, the men eat about everything they can get their hands on. And the girls, well, they stick to reducing stuff like salads, berries, fruit, tea, and some milk. We hardly ever see them at breakfast...
...returned after an almost disastrous slump), Heath's walk, and successive singles by Gallagher and "Hoss" Hamlen. Four successive blows in the next inning added two more runs as the rampage continued. After the opposition had registered three times in the bottom half of the fifth, the Harvard stick-swingers roared back with single runs in the fifth and sixth, and in the seventh again turned the three run "hat trick" on hits by Fitzgibbons, Heath, and Harvey...