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...almost dismissed but is pardoned at the last moment just in time to win the annual Army game. James Stewart is the bashful, blushing here, who spends half his time examining his feet in boyish timidity. Robert Young is his roommate who learns to love the glorious traditions of the Navy. Florence Rice is a very weak love interest...

Author: By W. R. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

...methods over to Dr. Seifriz. Ever since his student days at Johns Hopkins and in England, Germany, Switzerland and France, William Seifriz had hankered for generous supplies of "naked proto-plasm." Physarum polycephalum filled the bill. In a lyrical moment Dr. Seifriz called it a "great big glorious handful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Glorious Handful | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...season, and Harvard boxing, did not end in a smashing victory, designed to leave Crimson pugilism just a glorious memory. Virginia won, and so intercollegiate fisticuffs here was terminated in somewhat of an anticlimax...

Author: By Charles N. Poliak, | Title: New Deal in Harvard Boxing Promised By Lamar as He Plans House League | 12/2/1937 | See Source »

...cullered boy, an' he names Ezekiel," who lives in Sanford. Florida with "he Pappy and he Mammy an' he Sister Emancipation an' he brudder Lil' Plural an' Assafetida, de baby." Although he and his family do not live up to the glorious promise of their names, Ezekiel has enough adventures in 39 pages to make the book one of the unexpected best sellers of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...responsible for the current gang warfare in Revere. When Gaeta was slain on Tuesday by East Boston gangsters who were trying to "muscle in" on his number pool and bookmaking monopoly, Revere Post No. 61 of the Legion stepped willingly forward to claim its glorious dead. On Wednesday Revere's flags, which twelve days before had honored America's 400,000 World War dead, flew at half-mast again in honor of their latest fallen "Buddy". All day long, on schools, libraries, and even the police station, the lowered flags taught puzzled adults and children of Revere that there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CASUALTY" ON THE REVERE "FRONT" | 11/27/1937 | See Source »

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