Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Desserts. In Beckley, W.Va., a young man was charged with posing as a Government "applesauce and preserves tester." Working from house to house, he would declare preserves too sweet − a vio lation of rationing rules − collect $25 to guarantee the housewife's appearance in court...
Most any night now you will find one of two Ohioans presiding over the piano in the Student's Club. If it's boogie-woogie or live you want, your champion will be Bob Norris of the Midshipmen-Officers' School. If your tastes run along sweet or semi-classical lines, Dick Hucks of the junior class will hold forth. Their common meeting ground is the "Cow-Cow Boogie"; after that it's every man for himself...
Things we will miss around Harvard: the "Bang bang bang" of Tom McNoeley of the boxing department ... the unique spectacle of a master sergeant waxing a floor ... "Stand steady!" ... the waterless showers at Dillon Field House ... the sweet aroma de sweat at 85 degrees in the cage--and STILL they ask us to do deep breathing ... lectures and films on the tactical use of the 63 1/2 millimeter anti-balloon carbine (obsolete since 1906) ... trying to read the SERVICE NEWS through a maze of misprints and proof readers' lapses ... all the things we'd like to print...
...this bid for the farm vote. First, Tom Courtney is no bumpkin himself, but the son of a Chicago policeman. He spent his childhood selling papers on the city's streets. Second, his feuding with the Big City's Kelly is temporarily suspended. The new spirit of sweet harmony among Illinois Democrats was keynoted when Tom Courtney announced his candidacy: "Surely there is no quicker or better way of winning the war than by upholding the hands of our President, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...faults to be found in the picture are few and far between. The situation under which Lassie is sold is a bit over-used, and parts of the show are saccharine sweet. But, to counterbalance that, there are some excellent characterizations. Edmund Gwenn has done a fine performance as the proprietor of a traveling show and shop. Donald Crisp is conventional but natural as the father, Elsa Lanchester quite good as the mother, but Nigel Bruce a bit under par as the Lord of the Manor and purchaser of Lassie...