Word: streak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vitality that Cruikshank and Leech got into their illustrations of Dickens' London, the same knack of making ragpickers a touch romantic. Some of his canvases: Sax Sec-lion, a red-coated Negro band turning on the heat in Harlem; Chatham Square Street Fight, two stevedores sparring, while kids streak up to see the fun; Such Sweet Sorrow, a pair of drunks embracing under...
...undefeated Yardlings face a strong Exeter squad in the Indoor Athletic Building pool this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Crimson first-year men, led by Buss Curwen, Bill Drucker, and Shaw McCutcheon, will be favored to extend their winning streak...
Take the description of Crockett when he "grated thunder with his teeth," or the woman who used to "brag that she war a streak of litenin set up edgeways and buttered with quicksilver," or the cold morning when "the airth had actually friz fast in her axis, and couldn't turn around; the sun had got jammed between two cakes of ice under the wheels, an' thar he had been shinin and working to get loose, till he friz fast in his cold sweat." This work is no mere potboiler...
...team that broke Harvard's winning streak last year has lost only two men, Em Walker and diver Holmes Wilson. All the rest, except the Sophomores, are veterans of topflight competition. For its season's opener, the Freshman squad will rely on Carter in the sprints, Burgess in the breastroke, and Gernon in the distances...
...Universal) adds another to the staggering total of prison breaks screen convicts have made from Hollywood jails. Though "the technical adviser on break scenes" in this film was a paroled former convict, the picture is chiefly interesting because Victor McLaglen plays a warden with a larcenous streak and a guilty conscience; Edward Brophy plays a sly trusty who finds the warden out; and Master Jackie Cooper successfully continues his graduation out of short pants into juveniles...