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...errors by shortstop Mort Dunn, added to a wild pitch and two hit batsmen by hurler Charley Roche were the most unfortunate factors in a disastrous fifth inning at Washington, D.C. last Wednesday which allowed George Washington University to score six runs and coast to a 14-10 win over the Crimson...
...Mort, à Mort, à Mort." Carlini, who has a Marseilles flair for colorful prose, described what happened next...
...ugly, red-bearded giant, hit me on the head with a chair leg. I was knocked down, and under a deluge of punches and kicks, dragged down the stairs and outside the City Hall. I recognized the shrieks of my wife, mingling with the yelling of the mob: (À mort, à mort, à mort...
Then the 16th victim died. The town began to buzz with ugly rumors. The townspeople began to call it "I'HÔpital de la Mort." Dr. Denis ordered all gynecological patients isolated in private rooms behind locked doors. By mistake, one patient was taken to a ward after her operation. Her death was the 17th...
Johnny O'Clock (Columbia) is another strenuous whodunit in which everyone talks in a monotone, wears an inscrutable expression, indulges in pinwheel fisticuffs and drinks a mort of straight whiskey. It may be that the type has become formalized and will shortly be just plain dull...