Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Disenchanted, Novelist Schulberg set the touch control on his typewriter at High Tragedy, but he bangs a machine so hard that the adjustment kept slipping to Tense Melodrama. The plain fact is that Fitzgerald's story calls for a Fitzgerald to tell it. Yet Author Schulberg has thought hard, guessed shrewdly, and written the truth as he sees and feels it. His Manley Halliday may not be the whole Fitzgerald, but he is a figure to remember...
...time in pushing himself forward. He chatted easily, had a knack for making friends, had his hair "dressed" every day and took care to be seen in the most fashionable places. He was soon intimate with Lord and Lady Northumberland, Actor David Garrick, Writer Oliver Goldsmith and a fast set of tony young rakes. He dined well, co-authored (with Andrew Erskine) a book of poems and letters which he calmly reviewed himself in the London Chronicle as "a book of true genius." London's more objective Critical Review called the poems "the cheapest and most nauseous drugs...
Clasby completed 11 out of 15 passes for 122 yards and two touchdowns, but two second-period Yardlings fumbles near their own 40 yard line set up Brown's first two scores...
...freshmen, playing their best game of the season, worked well from their new single-wing formation Clasby and end Harvey Popell completed a 23-yard pass play to set up the first touchdown. Ted Kennedy scored after making a difficult catch of another Clasby pass at 9:00 of the first period...
Halfway through the second stanza, the Tigers roared deep into Harvard territory. Aided by luck in front of the goal, the Orange and black scored twice within a minute and a half to set up a 2 to 0 halftime lead...