Word: catch
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Immediate effect of the Book of Lynch on U. S. infantrymen will be to reduce hours spent in antiquated close-order drill, increase the days devoted to field maneuver. Smart boys will catch on in two or three weeks; chuckleheads who look to left of trees after month's end will be demoted to the awkward squad...
Speaking of the Italian troops in Spain, Negrin termed them detriments to the Rebel cause, adding that the only reason they weren't completely destroyed at Guadalajara was that "they ran too fast for us to catch them...
...Bull" allowed him to remain, changing his policy because of the patriotic sentiments involved, but he shortly regretted his kindheartedness. Fifteen minutes before the end of the hour the student rose, told the class he had to catch a plane for another cruise, and departed, leaving the teacher in a near apoplectic state...
...criticism leaves much yet to be said in favor of the production. Robert Keith gives a generally delightful impression of Dickens with all his virtues and not a few of his faults. We are introduced to Dickens the courageous, Dickens the admirable, Dickens the lovable; but we may also catch glimpses of Dickens the proud and vain. Above all we get a clear insight into the struggles of a man whose sympathies and view of life were not those of the dominant forces of his day. And however successful his crusade on behalf of the "Oliver Twists" may seem...
Alice was quick to catch on. She hit a tennis ball like a man, and nearly as hard. Within two years she had won the California girls' championship. At that point a keen eye noted her. Eleanor Tennant, a graduate of Golden Gate Park nearly two decades before, had been third ranking U. S. woman player when she turned teacher in 1920. Now she was the foremost woman tennis coach in the U. S. Though she got $1,000 a month from Cinemactress Marion Davies, Teacher Tennant offered to take on young Marble for nothing...