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...funeral, recounts Historian Barzun, "the pair of mourning-coach steeds, black and tame as Paris undertakers themselves, suddenly seized the bit in their teeth, plowed through the brass band in front of them, and brought Berlioz alone within the gates...
...actors in the film are wild rats, which are nothing like the tame, bored white rats of laboratories. The films were shot by Signal Corps cameramen on Oatland Island near Savannah. Some of the players turned out to be more troublesome than the most temperamental movie stars...
...long ago there were log cabins and small settlements, modern cities bloom-Kansas City, Omaha, Bismarck and all the others. Bridges cross the winding river, carry trains and automobiles from one bank to the other. The beaver has crept away, but men have built new dams-dams which tame the once treacherous river and produce power for the farmer's lamps. Peace-long-fought-for peace-has settled over the Missouri Valley, and this time it will last...
Surrealism was an old tired story when World War II outdated it for keeps. Some of Surrealist Salvador Dali's zany stunts were curiously prophetic of blast and ruin; today they seem tame compared with the actuality of bombs that can melt watches, toss armchairs into treetops and instantly disintegrate a man. Dali is showman enough to know it and he has taken a new tack-back toward Raphael...
Otherwise the game was a tame affair, with Harvard in complete charge the whole way. In the first period the Crimson's passing was weak, and the team depended on individual rushes for the bulk of its attack, but the passing improved in the second and third periods...