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Other speakers, taking windy advantage of their prerogative to state national objectives unchecked, met with less consideration. As in the "real" League, ushers were supplied to carry messages from national group to national group. Comely Radcliffe maidens, cleverly clad in white, which contrasted flatteringly with the dull winter garb of their visiting sisters, flitted constantly from contingent to contingent, often transporting billet dour or notes reading "Just to make use of the usher." So the League dispelled ennui...
...nogrom of the conventions; it is purely and simply a play-up to the inimitable James. Cagney twists his mat face into all sorts of hyena snarls; e bungs the ladies in the snout, and telescopes their jaws as the occasion requires; he enters the picture as a tough usher, graduates to the jewel thief class, kicks up a jump to a movie star's berth, and finishes the whirlwind by aiding the police in a running machine-gun duel with the old gang, in the course of which the old gang is almost totally exterminated. Naturally, that Cagney trademark...
...unwholesome Paris gallery of reporters, U. S. dress buyers, tennis champions, and one superb banjo-playing Southerner. In a final scene Keating and Williams disguise the fact that they are glad to be together again by burlesquing an old-fashioned cinema situation. Keating as the villain pretends to usher her into his mountain hunting lodge, offer her a drink. Williams as the innocent young girl pretends to go behind a screen, take off her wet clothes, put on her dressing gown. She enacts a mock defense of her chastity until Keating embraces her in a final kiss that audiences...
Plaintiff finally did go to the game, using his tickets. An usher appeared in the second period and asked for the tickets which the plaintiff gave him. The usher then asked him to leave the game, and on the plaintiff's refusal and an unsuccessful attempt by the usher to put him out, a police officer did so. Mrs. Saltoncabot followed. Outside the Stadium, but inside Soldiers Field, the head usher, Caroll Cetchell, was standing. He hissed to the plaintiff and his wife, gesturing with his thumb toward the gate...
...brought this action against defendant, who is president of the Harvard Athletic Association. He seeks to recover damages from the defendant for the breach of contract involved in his ejection from the Stadium, for the assault and false imprisonment therein involved, and for the slanderous words of the head usher. The plaintiff submits that his tickets were more than a mere license, that they were at least evidence of a contract for the enjoyment of a football game, if not an actual contract, and that by preventing him from seeing the game the defendant broke his contract...