Word: toms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lone Crimson first-place winner was Howie Mondel, who tossed the 16-pound shot 47 ft. 11 in. to establish a new meet record. The other two American firsts were provided by Jay Shields and Tom Lussen of Yale in the 120-yard high hurdles and pole vault, respectively...
...Harvard, as has been the case since Dick Harlow took over, will again have a well drilled outfit, with more backfield strength than usual", ventures Wallace. He goes on to say that Captain Macdonald and Tom Hesley are likely to be outstanding on the team...
...just trying to be forehanded," Henry Morgenthau explained, as he made an announcement that wakened memories of 1917: the appointment of the first dollar-a-year-men of World War II. They were three bankers: able, affable Tom K. Smith, 57, of St. Louis, a distinguished veteran of the Liberty Loan campaigns in 1917-19, who in 1939 is to be "a sort of coordinator of all banking problems for the Treasury"; Warren Randolph Burgess, 50, of Manhattan's National City Bank, a military statistician during World War I, recalled to duty last week as an expert on Government...
...solve the problems of its characters, but to heighten them. Since these characters to begin with are as slick and typical a pack as ever cavorted through a Louis Bromfield serial in Cosmopolitan, after the rain they seem sadly washed out and anticlimactic. Chief among them are Tom Ransome (George Brent), a remittance man from a good county family, his old flame Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy), who deserted him to find a rich husband, and Major Safti (Tyrone Power), the handsome, high-caste Indian surgeon for whom Lady Esketh wickedly sets her cap. While trying to keep his friend...
...first to portray a fighter as a pitiable neurotic. Joe Bonaparte (William Holden) has a beautiful pair of hands, which he can use to equal effect playing the violin or smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never got much out of his fighting hands but a shiny roadster that he piled up against a tree. In the cinema...