Word: ail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ail-American aircraft show in Detroit early in April, glider jockeys are scheduled to show their skill...
...some time past, the bouquets hurled in the direction of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Manhattan) have been of the variety vulgarly known as Irish. Harsh words have been spoken, epithets employed. Among the multifarious ail ments reported has been the predominance of academic works, the paucity of moderns...
...only possible to single out individuals and rate them as solitary heroes. This thankless task is attended to by sports writers on whose hands time hangs heavy when the football season is over. What is remarkable about this performance is this: the pickers of Ail-American teams not infrequently agree with each other to some slight extent...
Simplicity and a superb vitality have made Jeritza. She wanted to be a prima donna. She is a prima donna and nothing interferes. She sings twice a week at the Metropolitan, their highest salaried singer. She rehearses. She sleeps. Other singers may ail. Jeritza has never missed a performance. Her public (she used to call it pooblic) must not be disappointed, and to bear out the principle she sang a concert once in Brooklyn on one foot, the other so badly sprained she had to be carried on the stage and propped against the piano. Yet trembling with fatigue when...
...point in the film, Miss Davies gives imitations of Mae Murray, Lillian Gish, Pola Negri, which make her a candidate for Ail-American funnywoman. In private life, she has been known to do an hilarious Charles S. Chaplin...