Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official who should know, if any outsider does, which Russian leaders are friendly to the Western powers is U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Walter Bedell Smith. This week, after "Beedle" Smith had visited the White House and asked President Truman to let him retire (he has ulcers), he said to reporters...
...high purpose of a six-nation agreement announced last week for the control of Germany's Ruhr-the dark, smoke-grimed valley that cradles the industrial heart of Europe. The text of the agreement was simultaneously given out in the capitals of the U.S. and the five Western Union nations-Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg...
Arthur Valpey brought the Michigan system to Harvard football last year, but it's a shame he didn't inspire the Athletic Association with a sensible mid-western approach to the business of awarding sports letters as well. The HAA could certainly use some new ideas in this department. It has been operating on a dried-up and unfair basis that is as out-of-date as the flying wedge...
Harvard, Yale and Middlebury were the only Eastern colleges in last week's competition. Western State finished second in the tourney and also contributed the top individual competitor, Crosby Perry-Smith. Perry-Smith took first place in both the cross-country and the jump and amassed 388.00 points. Other teams to finish ahead of Harvard were Utah, which placed third; Denver, fourth; Colorado, fifth; California, sixth; Wisconsin, seventh; Nevada, eighth; and Wyoming, ninth...
There is nothing crisp and original in "The Paleface," just the old tried and true western cliches dressed up and put forth flawlessly. But in this case the result is a tremendous burlesque of all western epics, both serious and comic, with Bob Hope as the stalwart hero and Jane Russell as the prim heroine. Hope is a coward, and Miss Russell is hardly prim...