Word: get-away
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...presenting "My Life With Caroline" and "The Get-Away" for its double-barreled opening of the plush-lined Peanut Gallery season, Harvard Square's cinematic palace has left ample room for improvement during the year. But while this bill isn't going to paralyze registration, it does offer the usual quiet refuge from the carnage of the Square on opening days...
...didn't get away from "The Get-Away," which features plenty of good close-ups of Tommy guns and a moral as big as a signboard: Don't rob defense payrolls. Personally, we preferred Bob Benchley's brand of "Crime Control...
...most forceful picture of all is a war scene showing three men in the foreground, the first of whom is lieing on the ground with a huge bloody wound, while the second is about to drive a bayonet through the back of the third as he strives to get-away. This is entitled "Brotherly Love...
...instance, we look at the influence of the automobile, on the spread of city into country, on the consolidation of country schools, the loosening of family control over the young, the decline of church congregations, the quick get-away for criminals,--all this shows enormous changes that have been effected in less than twenty-five years; but when we look for consistent alterations in our government machine, they are not there. The automobile has made township and county units obsolete, they are an unnecessary expense, quite indefensible but equally impossible to abolish...
...University came in the one mile relay, where the best running of Harvard's picked quarter milers,--Browne, Kane, Robb, and Allen,--could not keep the Harvard team from trailing far behind the Virginia, Yale, and Holy Cross runners. A bad position at the starting line and a poor get-away accounted in part for the Crimson's failure to place. But a still greater cause was the phenomenal running of Bohannon, Virginia's anchor man, and Chapman of Yale, who streaked ahead to first and second place despite Allen's valiant effort to catch...