Word: walks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine day in the spring of 1912, Monsieur Eduard Thibandeau, the esteemed mayor of Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, decided to take a walk into the bush from his country villa at Lac des lies. In the course of his visitation to this uninhabited ares, he came upon a very young and altogether wretched cow moose upon whom he took immediate pity. He swept the gawky calf into his arms and carried it back to his house. After a brief meditation, he decided that the animal should be removed to his stable in Shawinigan Falls and trained to peform some useful duty...
Schulte has been flirting with the haberdashery business for nearly ten years, ever since the company went through bankruptcy reorganization in 1940. The new management figured that those who came in for cigarettes and tobacco might also walk out with a shirt or tie. Many did. But since men who knew tobacco best were running things, the haberdashery business was not pushed very hard. It failed to halt a decline in sales, and profits shriveled to a paltry...
...frustrations. The experts tell you there's no holds barred, but the man who uses his knee in a climb is roundly booed from below, and the student who grabs the belaying rope for support is hold in disdain for the rest of his days. And you can't walk to a cliff by the back slope, you've got to scale the face. And you can't scale the face the easy way, you've got to climb the barest flattest, most unyielding wall in sight...
...relentlessly on Pinky's personal anguish that it achieves a haunting character portrait. Acting the role with an un-greasepainted face, Jeanne Grain seems like a morbid, almost marbleized Sleeping Beauty, bewitched by her conflict. Director Elia (Gentleman's Agreement) Kazan underlines the impression by having her walk with a dreamy gait, usually against the wind. As Pinky's washerwoman grandmother, Ethel Waters gives a powerful performance...
...tired in the seventh. The Brooks blasted across four runs, capped off by Gil Hodges' three-run homer, to finish Raschi and bring in Joe Page. Joe gave them short shrift, allowing two hits and one walk while striking out four in two and one third innings to save Raschi's first victory of the series...