Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bit of color was added to the afternoon's battle by Gordon Doucher of the Boston Club, who formerly starred at St. John's. Having just torn himself from a festive May wedding, Doucher in his eagerness to aid his faltering teammates forgot to remove his cutaway. His game was irregular...
Much the same team which defeated the Stahlmen by a 5 to 3 score last week, the grad squad will find the going a little bit tougher tomorrow as all Seniors with the exception of Torby Macdonald will be in the lineup. Fourth year men were excused from the last game because of divisionals. Macdonald is out with a severe sprain of his left ankle. Les Pitchford will take over the centerfield spot...
...role of a gangster, picturesquely stabs him to death with an icepick in a Turkish bath. A few double-crosses and prison breaks fail to thrill, except once when Tyrone almost gets killed. The most exciting scene in the movie, in fact, is one in which Dotty uses a bit of a dance as an excuse to assume a very effective substitute for her sarong of old and to reveal somewhat more than two inches above her knees--which fits in with the general tenor of the show in not appealing to one's intellectual perceptions. The drama closes with...
...coxswains of the Yardling and Varsity crows have likewise found great causes for insomnia among the waterbugs, but the Crimson men have a little bit quicker reaction, and a great deal better appreciation of the purpose of the metal object on the stern of each shell, the rudder...
Burgess Meredith as George is adequate, but Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lennie is a too-conventional half-wit, even to the throaty voice and harsh r's. The bit parts are the heart of the movie, and from start to finish are woven into powerful moods of pity, despair, and humility...