Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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However, on paper the Dartmouth eleven must rule a decided favorite. The Green has bowled over Holy Cross 19 to 6 and Brown 6 to 0, while it dropped a thriller 12 to 9 to B. C. which had even the Boston scribes excited. The Yardlings' record of two games lost and only one won, all of these against prep school teams, would seem to make them a definite underdog...
...deeper furrow last week. In big black type the New York Post said Dies Committee evidence showed that Friedhelm Drager, German Vice Consul in New York, is the head of a vast Nazi propaganda and espionage machine operating in the U. S. Deep and dark as an Oppenheim thriller was the story which the Post spread across its pages...
...more form than contents. The only concession to reality is the final appeal to the United States to steel herself against aggression a scene of piercing terror which shows Mr. Hitchcock still in firm control. To the very end, "Foreign Correspondent" remains his show. The result is that the thriller has reached a height that it will be difficult to surpass...
Best of these was Miss Grant Goes to the Door, a thriller-which might have been written by Edgar Wallace-about two old maids in a lonely part of Britain. While church bells ring an invasion warning, the old maids find a dying parachutist in the bottom of their garden. A few moments later a British officer knocks at their front door. He has lost his way to the airport, wants to borrow a map. Having done their homework on the Ministry's invasion pamphlet the Misses Grant know enough to keep the officer talking until a tongue slip...
Highlights in the 49 year jester-journalist diamond rivalry were recalled by veteran observers and innocent bystanders yesterday. They agreed that the greatest thriller of the series was the 1902 game, when a powerful Lampoon outfit (whose entire infield was later sold to the Brooklyn Dodgers for a song) when down in defeat, 23 to 2, after a pitchers' duel that lasted 25 innings...