Word: petee
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...preferably someone else's dollar. But in his prime, in the dim, goldbrick, 0. Henry era of gentle grafters, patent-medicine fakers, conmen and bunco artists, Steve the Swindler was regarded as especially expert in talking himself into funds and out of trouble. He ranked with Grand Central Pete and Paper Collar Joe, who were tops in bilking the rubes; for a time Steve Dutton was partner of the old master, Perrin Sumner, who was known in the Gay '90s as The Great American Identifier, for reasons lost to history...
...angels of whom Brooklynites dream are no veterans but two 22-year-olds: Harold ("Peewee") Reese and Harold ("Pete") Reiser. Reese, purchased from the Louisville Colonels last year (but benched with a chipped heel bone a good part of the season), is considered one of the smartest shortstops in the game. Reiser (rhymes with geezer) Drought up from Brooklyn's Elmira farm last summer, can play infield or outfield, nor does his bat sleep in his hand...
...tight shingle bob, she is back with a bang as Sandra Kovac, a temperamental concert pianist* with a touch of siren. The overtones of her villainous role begin to sound, sometimes a little nasally, from the time she snatches Maggie's (Bette Davis) rollicking, playboy sweetheart, Pete (George Brent), and marries him in an alcoholic spree. When it is discovered that they have to do it again because Sandra got her divorce decree dates mixed, Maggie snatches Pete back, this time salting him legally away...
Best sequence occurs in an isolated Arizona ranch house. There Maggie has taken Sandra to have Pete's baby after he is believed dead in an airplane crash in Brazil. The women have made a deal: Maggie to get Sandra's baby, Sandra to get a trust fund. It takes all Maggie's bullying, pampering, coercion to get the spoiled pianist to produce the baby. When the baby is finally born, Maggie subsides on the moonlit porch outside the house with all the apparent relief of an anguished father...
...worries of Bert Haines, fifty coach, increased when Sophomore Johnny Abbott, on whom he had been counting for the stroke seat, came down with the mumps at the beginning of vacation. The unbeaten record of the Varsity lightweights seems in jeopardy this year, with only Captain Seth Crocker and Pete Koeniger back from the 1940 eight. Tech, nosed out last year by a scant margin, has seven of last year's crew back and in addition has over a month's more practice behind them than the Crimson, which should make them an exceedingly tough nut for the Newell lightweights...