Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known throughout central Ohio as a soft touch for bums and loafers. They keep daughter Clara under strict surveillance, follow when she goes to the station to meet her father. As Bill Green steps down from his Pullman they gather round to greet him. The exchange of conversation is always the same. Green says: "It was awfully nice of you fellows to come down to meet me." There is a moment of shuffling and a spokesman for the bums and loafers says something about times being hard, Billy. Green acts surprised and helps out with dollar bills. Everyone goes away...
...Baltimore, teaches 400 students. Only about 50 boys, mostly the sons of Senators and Congressmen, board in. Headmaster Henry H. Callard thinks that the main advantage of a country day school is its kinship with its community: since most of the kids go home to dinner, they never lose touch with the world of grownups, as boys are apt to do at boarding schools. But he has a right to be proud for another reason. After 50 years, the Oilman Country School is still the best secondary school in Baltimore...
...scenario for the initial film has been completed under the direction of Roemer, who was assisted by Ulric G. Neisser '50 and Murray L. Lerner '48. Alden described the script as a "comic fantasy, tentatively entitled, 'Touch of the Times,' which will utilize local scenery whenever possible." Most of the Veritas shooting will be done outdoors, he added...
...standing smack in the center of his own creation. Young Rivera kept a dead snake and a bullfrog in his pockets, carried an eagle-headed umbrella and held hands with a grownup skeleton lady, dressed to kill. Just before he signed the mural, the aging artist's finishing touch was to broaden the boy's grin...
...worst of the trouble revolves around Dorothy Lamour, who is marooned on a farm but can think of only one good use for hay. She points this good use out to Ladd, who spurns her advances. So she marries Preston in order to keep in touch with her quarry. Finally Ladd and Preston slug it out in a bar and find that they mean much more to each other than the disconcerted Miss Lamour does...