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Word: webbs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spider Webb gave up only one earned run in the first seven innings as the freshmen committed nine errors for the second time this year. Dusty Cook shut out Worcester over the last two frames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Nine Downs Worcester, 8 to 7 | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

Someone who has seen "Sitting Pretty" may not care for Clifton Webb's new film--for "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" suffers by comparison. If it had come before "Sitting Pretty," it might have had a better chance. Nevertheless, taken by itself "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" offers many a chuckle for admirers of that dapper, self-confessed genius Lynn Belvedere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

...freshman baseball team takes on Worcester Academy at Worcester this afternoon in its second away game of the season. Either Spider Webb or Neil Howland will probably do the chucking for the Yardlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Nine Tackles Worcester Today | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

From there on, Webb keeps himself and the audience highly entertained. He wears his freshman cap with the same deadpan elegance he gives to his cane and his well-draped suit. In his job as hasher, he can toss up crepes Belvedere or lecture the young women of the sorority on table manners. At the piano in the sorority parlor, he can play Beethoven or boogie, but he prefers the works of Belvedere. His biggest, and perhaps funniest, moment comes at the Freshman-Sophomore track-meet when he lays aside his dog-eared book, rolls his well-creased trousers above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...left of the story is carried rather heavily by Shirley Temple and Tom Drake, two undergraduates busily involved with love and misunderstandings. But most of the time Director Elliott Nugent, who has a special knack for this sort of thing, keeps his lens and sound track trained on Clifton Webb. By neatly trimming the tone and pace of the film to Webb's personal high-comedy style, he has kept the Belvedere formula fresh and amusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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