Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, War Minister Strachey seemed content to rest on his own and Downing Street's denials. But Lord Kemsley, an innocent bystander in the whole Strachey business, sued the Tribune for libel in calling the Standard's actions "lower than Kemsley...
...time was 4:09.5, a shade slower than the 4:09.3 at which both men had been clocked in the Wanamaker. But Gehrmann was content; he was thinking about those eight yards of air between him and Fred Wilt. Said he: "I guess they can't argue about that...
...ever it goes back and is reborn ... All rivers flow into the sea, yet never the sea grows full; back to their springs they find their way, and must be flowing still. Weariness, all weariness; who shall tell the tale? Eye looks on unsatisfied; ear listens, ill content. Ever that shall be that ever has been, that which has happened once shall happen again; there can be nothing new, here under...
...leaden for fantasy, the movie is mulishly slow, and so prone to linger on the obvious that for a while it barely makes the grade as comedy. Not content to have Francis show up his military superiors, Author-Scripter Stern lets the mule go on haranguing them as well. But in its best scenes, the picture kicks up enough fun to numb a tolerant moviegoer to its shortcomings. Actor O'Connor makes an amiable nitwit, and Francis (voice by horse opera's Chill Wills) is a tribute to the patience and technical skill of moviemaking...
...Crimson is a slight favorite in tonight Big Three content and would be a much stronger bet had not Captain Myles Huntington and Shorty Minot been named in last Saturday's 4 to 1 defeat at Yale. Huntington will play, but with a stiff charley house leg and Minot will probably is out entirely with a wrenched knee. Cob DiBlasio should see action, but he will be nursing a bruised eye suffered in the BP game...