Word: larnin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Trail of the Lonesome Pine" has the makings of a superior "Kentucky Beautiful" travelogue (though undoubtedly not photographed in the Blue Grass country); as a feature picture it is entertaining, little more. It is the familiar story of book larnin's invasion of the back woods. The grizzled mountaineers fight and live and love after the fashion of "Esquire's" variety, and are somehow trying to one's credulity. Sylvia Sidney, as the barefoot lass who succumbs to the winning ways of the furriner from the city (Fred MacMurray) and forsakes Mammy and Pappy for the bosoms of the edjicated...
...crowd of 25,000 watched Ross flick harmless, showy punches at McLarnin's left eye, while McLarnin waited for the chance, which Ross was too clever to give him, to use his devastating right hand. After fifteen brisk but ineffective rounds, Ross walked to his corner, Mc Larnin turned the handspring with which, if he is able to move at the end of a fight, he invariably expresses his conviction that he has won. The judges cast conflicting votes. Referee Donovan agreed with McLarnin, gave him the decision and the title...