Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wallowing in mud, beset by cooties and all the creature discomforts of trench warfare. Most endearing to his readers and most distressing to some General Staff "brass hats' was Wally's wholehearted disrespect for M.P.'s, top sargints, second looies and all forms of military discipline. Toward the more sanguinary aspects of the War, Wally maintained an attitude of good-humored fatalism...
After watching the last nail hammered into the coffin of 1938 baseball (see p. 49), U. S. citizens last week turned their attention toward the wriggling three-weeks-old college football season. Monday-morning-quarterbacks began to appraise this year's players, prognosticate what teams would finish on top of the heap around Thanksgiving...
...South, auguries pointed toward Alabama, or Duke...
...half time, Army was leading 18-to-6. But in the final minutes of the third quarter, Luckman began to bomb the Army's defense. In the last quarter, with Columbia trailing 13-to-18, Luckman threw three passes and three times succeeded in speeding the ball toward a touchdown in a 96-yd. drive. Although Fullback Gerry Seidel carried the ball over the goal line, the rousing cheers that came from 25,000 exhausted throats were mostly for Sid Luckman. For his earlier point-after-touchdown had won the game for Columbia. Hero Luckman, however, calmly stepped...
Kaufman & Hart's idea of a theatrical Remembrance of Things Past was bright: even the hard-boiled feel tender toward the theatre of their youth. But the adroit humorists of Once in a Lifetime and You Can't Take It With You hopelessly lost their way on such a sentimental journey...