Word: ties
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this adaptation. He is even convincing when his Episcopalian relish for a nice little crime gets the young people into trouble and he has to turn dramatic to save them. Lucile Watson is the Bishop's sister, longtime president of the Primrose League, who knows how to tie up crooks because she has had so much experience tying up Christmas packages...
...favorite daytime costume is a gabardine suit, plaid socks and bow tie to match, saddle shoes, pork pie hat, but how does this enter? b, Yes, if they're pretty, the girls, we mean...
...excellent job. The casting is perfect. The play suffers, like most avowedly propagandist plays, from too much earnestness on the part of the playwrights (Paul Peters and George Sklar). It lacks any touch of relief from exciting, sometimes harrowing situations. The structural fault in its conception is obviously this tie scene after another. The acting of both the negroes and whites is good enough to being off the needed effects through the first two acts, but the third act is somewhat of a strain of one's sense of credibility...
...match play, most of them in 18-hole matches which, because they do not give the better man long enough to be sure of demonstrating his superiority against the hazards of the game, are the hardest kind. In all 31, he only once had to play off a tie. At Cleveland, last week, he played 156 holes 19 under par, went through the whole tournament without taking more than five strokes on any hole, and made it apparent that his superiority to the rest of the world's amateur golfers today is at least as great as Jones...
Oxford and Cambridge scored heavily in the track events while the visitors depended upon their field event men to tie up the score. A heavy rain shortly before the meet ruined all prospects of any record-breaking performances...