Word: won
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...nice thing about the labor stage is the good fun the actors continue to have before the footlights. They haven't become a bit sophisticated or world-weary with their antics. All of which, without pedagogy, proves a near point: that labor has won more friends by laughing at its enemies (and itself in many spots) than by a whole host of pamphlets...
...Stadium that pay the Faculty its wages. And thanks to the alumni the H.A.A. is carefully hoarding a reserve athletic endowment, contributed over the last five years. Eventually the interest from this fund will be used to support the teams in the minor sports, so that football gate receipts won't determine the amount of money put at the disposal of the House, Jayvee, and incidental squads through the rest of the year...
...more Detroit victory would do it. But Bucky Walters, pitching for the Reds next day, craftily tied the Tigers' paws, 4-to-0. Whether the Tigers or the Reds won the seventh and last game, baseball fans were sure to remember the two Bucks of this year's World Series...
...sleepless night, nerve-racked from continual bombardment -last week boarded an Atlantic Clipper at Lisbon, returned to the U. S. from the wars. They were: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ray Sprigle, whose report on Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's onetime Ku Klux Klan connections won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1938; Lloyd Allan Lehrbas of Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed the desolation left by Russian bombers in Finland...
...Rogers off the dancing stage to create a new comedy combination. Though, it is doubtful whether the partnership is so lucky for the film audience, the story surely gives Providence a thoroughly outstanding workout. Ginger Rogers' good fortune starts off with the gift of a $350 gown, includes $6000 won on a sweepstakes ticket and ends up with Ronald Colman as her grand prize. Ronald gets Ginger, and that's good enough luck for anyone...