Word: tilting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successful record for the current campaign, for Tufts had ten Seniors in its opening lineup' and was generally considered to be one of the top teams in in the New England loop. With the opener successfully under its belt, the legmen take on Clark University Saturday in another league tilt...
Lana Turner is a superbly tough and toothsome foil for Mr. Gable's masterful routines. She can so tilt her chin that, in any posture, she suggests that she is looking up from a pillow. Clark Gable has had better parts before. But in his closing speech on Bataan, he develops real heat and resonance that suggest a rather moving transition from the celluloid fictions which, for years, he has made likable, into facts which, for the duration, will be his obscure, more serious business...
...last place Dudley Ramblers met the seventh place Adams team in the only softball tilt of the day with the cellar position at stake. Adams won, 8-5, behind the pitching of Sylvester, and left Dudley trailing the field more firmly entrenched than ever...
Kirkland, in the only touch football game of the day, edged out Leverett, 4-3, in a tilt that was closely contested and well played...
Painter Carroll is, as it happens, mainly known as a painter of women-tilt-nosed madonnas who suggest fragile wisps of a moonlight reverie. Painted in foamy tones, with appealing childlike faces and flickering bodies trailing lingerie like the draperies of an El Greco saint, Carroll's women sell like hotcakes at $1,000 up. (An Italian laborer once slashed one from its frame and took it home to be "his woman.") His pictures are also collected by the soberest U.S. museums as examples of the finest contemporary U.S. art. They resemble (in an etherealized form) his pert...