Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage musical comedy, it is handicapped by the fact that its great tunes-"Hallelujah" and "Sometimes I'm Happy"-are just old enough to be stale. Its story, stale to begin with, is laid in a seaport town populated by chorus girls who are always ready to swing into a routine, and by numerous chorus-boy sailors named Smith. Jack Oakie's talents are subdued by his struggles with the dialog. A girl named Polly Walker, new to films, who plays opposite him, has not enough vitality to get her role across. Best shot: fat Marguerita Padula, made...
...provide space for these lockers and the 175 which have been brought over from the Weld boathouse, while two men will be on duty 24 hours a day stoking the fires to provide enough hot water to accommodate about 1400 men daily when crew and baseball are in full swing...
...hard for a short man to uppercut a tall man's jaw, but Paulino Uzcudun found how to do it. He would swing a left into the ribs of Otto Von Porat, lantern-jawed Norwegian, and as Von Porat's head came down it would meet a right hand whisking up. Bettors who had figured that the Norwegian had two chances of landing the best punches for every chance squat Uzcudun had of staying away from them, cheered when, in the first round, Uzcudun spread his legs to keep from falling. After that Uzcudun kept his chin...
...players move so fast that without their bright shirts in solid contrasting colors you could not tell the teams apart. Two rhythms work in jai alai like the separate yet dependent movements of a fugue. One is the sweep of the cesta. catching the ball on the back swing, throwing it the same second with a stab or a sweep, depending upon whether the player wants to make a long shot or a cut. The other rhythm is the movement of the spectators' faces left and right-first toward the wall as the server, after bouncing the ball, hooks...
...Evanston, Ill, William Henry King IV, longtime town worthy, was tried for wife-beating. He pleaded that he had been "compelled to swing on her" when she dyed her hair green. The judge dismissed the case...