Word: morsels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relaxed during their mid-season breathers, the freshman basketball and hockey teams have the tough half of their menus successfully stomached, with only one distasteful morsel apiece, a sloppy basketball loss of 49 to 35 to B. C., and a 9 to 4 ice slaughter at Bruin hands to spoil their siestas...
Insatiable Mem Hall will open wide its cavernous maw once again this morning to gobble up an expected summer registration morsel of 1140 students returning from the spring term to hike enrollment figures in the College...
...corset of someone's spinster aunt. Not since Stinky and Shorty pervaded the atmosphere of the Old Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like Irene Allarie, who bumps her svelte way through a colorful unveiling that is guaranteed to wilt even the stiffest of straw hats among the Summer Theatre...
...Under the present system there were incongruities, e.g.: "Hap" Arnold drew $4,000 a year more salary (by flight pay) than his boss, Chief of Staff Marshall. Three flying generals, with four stars, drew as much as or more than Five-Star Marshall, whose only bonus was an occasional morsel of overseas pay (at 10%). Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, rated a naval aviator, until V-J day added 10% "sea pay" to his base pay by living aboard the yacht Dauntless in Anacostia's mud, but he spurned the chance to collect 50% more for occasional flying. Most...
...this morsel of plot and a minimum of action Playwright Brown somehow squeezes enough to keep an audience pretty interested. He does it largely through brisk talk and lively G.I. gags and through the human, antiheroic picture he paints of soldier life. But though he can squeeze out interest, he cannot distill feeling or significance. The theme of his play is a sense of comradeship which is not just part of a code and which tough, cynical soldiers can no more escape than they can explain. But Playwright Brown cannot explain it for them-or even make it seem real...