Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the first play from scrimmage, when Ithacan Baker broke away to jaunt 74 yards to score on a perfect reverse through the weak side, the game gave evidence of being a rout. Harvard had to punt right away, and the Cornell attack functioned again. It had to be stopped twice, but twice it was stopped, and from there on, the Crimson showed they are a team to be reckoned with by all future opponents...
...soldiers lined up to invade Czechoslovakia. The threat of Joseph Stalin fortnight ago that the Red Army would march if Poland committed "unprovoked aggression" on Czechoslovakia was no longer taken seriously by the Warsaw General Staff. Polish officers squawked, "We have called the Communist bluff!" Hungary was and acted weak. Drastically disarmed after the World War as one of the defeated nations, her present rearmament is incomplete and the Czechoslovak Army probably today could whip the Hungarian Army if the two could meet alone in battle. Events showed clearly last week how Might can make two similar cases quite different...
...That's a weak word, but it is the only one applicable to the Brown pictures, shown yesterday at a press meeting with Dick Harlow in the H.A.A. office. This sounds like an alibi on Saturday's game, but the movies brought out clearly that on several plays one clean line block instead of a half one would have made the difference, not just between two and ten yards, but between two and a touchdown...
...Service (RKO) is John Murray's and Allen Boretz's outrageously funny farce about the exigencies of show business on a shoe string, redesigned as a vehicle for Harpo, Groucho and Chico Marx. Groucho is Producer Gordon Miller, whose schemes for wheedling board & lodging out of a weak-spined hotel manager to whom he already owes a small fortune are hideously complicated by the arrival of an irascible hotel supervisor (Donald McBride), then of the bewildered young author whose play he hopes to produce. Harpo and Chico are Miller's equally impecunious assistants. The tumultuous efforts...
...general. By a rather far-fetched accident, the general technically commits suicide, but under circumstances which, even if believed, would in those days have failed to save even a beautiful defendant. The piling up of circumstantial evidence brings the lovers to trial. After a false confession which saves her weak-kneed lover's neck, Morganna pays the Devil his wages and goes bravely to the scaffold...