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...leagues-showed neither ability nor ambition to finish it off in a hurry. They made bush-league mistakes in the field (in a single game three pop flies were allowed to fall for safe hits), swooned in the face of first-rate pitching, and did nothing more invigorating than tilt their eyebrows at umpires' decisions...
...also induced Lord Rothermere to tilt his nose a little more toward the grindstone. After his father's death in 1940 he began showing up at Northcliffe House at 10 in the morning, stayed till after 6 at night. The policy of the Daily Mail, which had been friendly to fascism in his father's time, supported the anti-fascist war, at times seemed hostile to the U.S., wobbled along apparently undecided whether to go right or left...
Director Adolph W. Samborski has decided to call off further play following this afternoon's game between Standish and Company A, a tilt which will have no effect on the final standings. Unlike recent basketball tourneys, where closely-knit units could be developed and league leadership fluctuated almost daily, the present tournament has resulted in irregular attendance and a one-sided victory for Company B. The V-12 squad concluded the season with a 6-0 record, with pitcher Runnier Wright largely responsible for the walkaway...
Like "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay," "Roughly Speaking" is a record of personal history. Louise Randall Pierson's book told of a harsh tilt with life, beginning in Boston during the days when woman stonoga were looked upon askance, continuing through one unsuccessful marriage with the entrance of four children, and ending on the nana of a second world war to the tune of a second venture in matrimony. The heroine knew how to play the game of living with an American love for hard knocks, and her zest has been caught in the motion picture's robust abandon...
...weighs 125 pounds, has over 700 feet of wire, a transformer, electric relays, motor, and hundreds of light bulbs. Experts, whose pinmanship is par excellence, direct the course of the magnetized marbles with well-calculated nudges, but usually when handled too roughly the machine shortcircuits and clicks on the "tilt" sign...