Word: streak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough, despite recent Hays' office laxity, all the mothers are married. So the plot centers about the very unexciting career of their father (Claude Rains), an orchestra conductor who gets neither sympathy nor symphonies until after the old homestead has been sold to the wreckers. Then he hits a streak of luck, conducts a poorly recorded concert, regains the old homestead, and leaves everybody happy--at least everybody on the screen...
...their evening's encounter with the B. U. Yearlings last night, the '44 sextal came off with an 8 to 2 victory to continue their winning streak. The Varsity, in an unofficial encounter with the Junior Olympics, dropped their game by the reverse score...
...hockey team meets Princeton in a return engagement at the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink in New Jersey. At present the Tigers are leading the league with one goal wins over Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, and there seems little chance of stopping Dick Vaughan's men from running their streak further...
...Freshmen ran their streak to five straight last night when they trounced a game Framingham High School sextet 6 to 1 in a game played at the Boston Skating Club. In an informal clash the 97 Club completely outplayed the Varsity, winning by a 7 to 0 margin...
...Publisher Hearst a private preview, make necessary adjustments. Seldom in Hollywood history had there been such a prospective buildup. Wiseacres shook their heads in wonder. Was it inspiration or luck? Orson Welles might not be the Junius Brutus Booth of his generation, but some thought he had a jumbo streak of the old Barnum...