Word: alma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here again is Southern woman sore beset, hounded by desire and hobbled by gentility, and wrecked not so much by passion as by the attempt to give it a prettier name, to deny its carnal nature. Alma Winemiller (Margaret Phillips) is a minister's repressed, highfalutin daughter, passionately in love with the hell-raising son of the doctor next door. Possibly John Buchanan (nicely played by Tod Andrews) would have fallen for Alma had not her ladylike insistences, her chatter about the spiritual side of love, been too much for him. By the time Alma looks sex squarely...
Aboriginal Ideas. "I'm just a rookie at football, I'm no expert," Rickey kept insisting to everyone within hearing. But when pressed he remembered coaching football 40 years ago at his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan, and the "aboriginal ideas" he picked up there. To his coach, Carl Voyles, who is also in his first year at pro football, Rickey said: "Modern football is speed. Give me four players-a center, a good passing back and two tall, sprinting ends-and you can have the rest." Voyles outbid the National League's Pittsburgh Steelers for a "good...
Almost before Alf knew it, there he was with his family in "The House of Windsor," one of four giant dining halls serving 1,500 Butlineers each. Before Alf's week was up "The House of Windsor" would have become his alma mater, his particular allegiance against the other three royal houses (York, Gloucester, Kent). "Welcome, campers, to Windsor," loomed the loudspeaker. "Now let's all get to know each other right away. Introduce yourself to the camper on each side of you. Fine. Now to the camper across the table...
Lescaze had recently interviewed eleven graduating students of Princeton's own School of Architecture, gleefully reported that "Not one of them had a kind word to say for their Alma Mater's newest building. How could they? They had been taught to strive for honest architectural solutions and yet at the same time their own university had been building a library with a Gothic mask. Talking to them I had the feeling that Princeton's library may well turn out to be the last example of our colleges' long devotion to a mistaken loyalty...
...breaking an ankle fortnight ago, which will keep him out of the lineup for 60 days. Outfielder Tommy Holmes put zing into the batting order. Southworth didn't seem to be worried about Durocher's new Giants, or Shotton's new Dodgers-only about his old alma mater, the St. Louis Cardinals, "who stand out above us all. Wow, that's a beautiful ball team...