Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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After eight years in Hollywood Harold still remembers the kick he got out of making Dean's List. "And I think I got an A once. Yes, it was in a course about the Bible given by Professor Lake. That was the only mark I ever got that I was proud...
...reputed $10,000 a game-the week after he played his last game for Illinois. Nowadays, college footballers cannot play professional ball until their class has graduated. But any player who in eight games can score 16 touchdowns, throw seven touchdown passes, convert 18 points-after-touchdown and kick a field goal-to give his team 159 of their 196 points-is good whenever the pros can get him. The Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins had each reportedly offered $25,000 to catch the Wolverine Express for next year...
...brashly agreed to take $2 for every pint of milk he could wring from a cow named Lucky that Bartlett brought to the studio. At show's end, he had made just $2. Other You Sell Me chores are blowing up large balloons till they break, trying to kick oneself in the pants. To protect his show from lawsuits, Bartlett says he is negotiating with Lloyd's to get $100,000 worth of insurance...
Above all, let us give the most immediate and visible sign of our own determination to the world. Let us kick out every Nazi and every Fascist consul in the country and clean out the central nests from which saboteurs and spies move with impunity against our whole defense effort...
...clowning side, Jerry Lester has the stage to himself for fifteen minutes in the First Act and fills it with a combination of imitations, somersaults and gags that should go on for hours. His side-kick, Phil Baker, whether by his own choice or not, is unfortunately relegated to a back seat and the audience gets little chance to enjoy his tongue. Of the skits, "Morning After a Faun" with Imogene Coca and William Archibald, and Red Marshall's gymnastics in "Red Rails In the Sunset" keep the aisles well filled...