Word: tub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match) at Oxford since 1931,*Jones stood at attention with his teammates while the band played God Save the Queen. Oxford lost the game, 3 to 0, but Outlander Jones acquitted himself well (said the Manchester Guardian: "He gave as good as he got"). Relaxing afterward in a steaming tub, which he shared with a teammate-there were only two showers -Jones was pleased that Oxford, though honorably beaten, had won most of the "tight scrums" (scuffling with the feet for possession of the ball...
...when everyone is just concerned with being rascally, and not in subverting the more cherished tenets of the NAM, the film runs very smoothly. Besides many visual gags, including the boat itself, a leaky tub that floats in a humorous way, there is a cast of usual types for this sort of picture. Of course, a cunning captain, insolent mate, brash little boy and blustering American are fairly stock characters, but these particular actors are good, if not sparkling. The same can be said of the picture...
BAKER FIELD, N.Y.--Yale beat Columbia here Saturday but didn't fulfill the fond hopes of its ace tub-thumper or the expectations of the reliable Jersey house, which had made the New Have crowd a two-touchdown favorite...
...heard the last of Nye. He was free now, and eager to thump his tub at mill gates, dockyards, and pit heads, trying to woo the workers from their leaders. "Bevan may be dead" said one Laborite,"but he won't lie down...
...another, until, of course, the Scots crew gets the last laugh. Actor Douglas does astonishingly well to hold his own in such fast comic company. Alex Mackenzie, an actor who taught school in Clydebank until he was 61, is a grizzled old Scots beauty, and he can "throw a tub to a whale" (the Scottish phrase, aptly enough, for sharp practice) like few men since Sir Harry Lauder. Hubert Gregg makes a sopping good Milquetoast as Douglas' male secretary, who is haplessly stationed aboard the Maggie to see that the boss's orders are carried...