Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guess football players don't blossom in the summer," remarked Cox balancing delicately on one palm. By way of illustration, downfield on the Varsity baseball diamond, Chip Gannon was uncorking 150 yard passes. Standing behind home plate he was reaching centerfield with alarming consistency...
...escape from a window. As he fell to the ground, a lyncher with a bowie knife prepared to cut off his head, despite the remonstrances of a horrified bystander (see cut). But as he died, the prophet had one more triumph; the sun blazed out, illuminating the jail yard, and the man with the knife shrank away...
...spirit which Hollywood seldom gives to a medium-budget mystery. (It might also be noted that Britain would have difficulty turning out a Dark Corner or even a Blue Dahlia, which had a certain rude style and spirit of their own.) Best thing in the picture is Scotland Yard (amusingly played by long-jawed, quinine-flavored Alastair Sim), who is almost as bungling as he is smug, and never loses his complacency, even over his worst mistakes...
Clyde O. Ruggles, professor of public utility management and regulation, welcomed the convention to Harvard; and tours around the Yard and the museums were provided during the afternoon by the Graduate School staff under direction of Charles R. Cherington, assistant professor of government and secretary of the school of public administration...
...fiancée (Patricia Medina) and his magnificent old mother (Ethel Barrymore). She also tries to play detective, and falls in love with her main suspect. Next thing she knows, she is in line for the Bible, the moss rose, and the hair's-breadth intervention of Scotland Yard (Vincent Price...