Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perie will be difficult competition, Smart fears, because he has been working out all winter "getting the feel of his equipment." Armchair study combined with the track managership this spring hasn't been the best sort of preparation for Smart...
...Last winter, when there was no fishing, Annie cut 20 cords of pulpwood for sale and a couple of cords for the home stove. Said she last week: "I make enough out of fishing and pulpwood to live on. There isn't much left over. I love the sea and I love the land. I think maybe I would like other things better but this is my bread & butter." Then she added with pride: "The men down here who go fishing all think I'm wonderful...
...week's end, the registrar's office noted what it hoped was not the beginning of a trend: a coed wanted her degree postponed until next winter, so her diploma would be signed by President Eisenhower...
Carroll Shilling, winner of the 1912 Kentucky Derby, and considered by many the most inspired horseman who ever held a pair of reins, has been in & out of sanitariums for alcoholism in recent years. Buddy Ensor, after losing many a bout with the bottle, died last winter in New York City. Laverne Fator, perhaps the iciest jockey who ever rode a horse, killed himself a few years ago. Tod Sloan, who made and squandered over a million dollars, ended up wheedling dimes from street crowds, billed as "the strangest dwarf in the world...
...elegantly produced by John Houseman and directed by Austrian Max Opuls who, back in the early '30s, made one of the finest pictures of this genre-Schnitzler's Liebelei. Opuls knows all there is to know about romantic values: flirtations in the Prater, late on a winter night; a military band concert in a provincial city; the way a veteran roue misunderstands a refined and ardent woman. Some of his scenes have such strong visual charm that the dialogue recedes to a sort of musical accompaniment. But by & large the movie talks rather than sings -and talks...