Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carroll simulates the jiggling gait of Beatrice Lillie (This Year of Grace), the lush, salivary speech of Constance Collier (the countess in Serena Blandish), the Jewish idiom of Fannie Brice (Fioretta), the long-legged, weaving rhythms of Gertrude Lawrence (Treasure Girl). He is far less successful in his one attempt to imitate a man, to catch the elusive implications of silent Harpo Marx (Animal Crackers). There are also two female mimics: Dorothy Sands and Paula Trueman. The latter sings a Mid-Victorian love lyric while stripping herself of illusion's oldtime harness−bustle, gussets, padded bosom. Congratulations pokes...
...contest Rohrer's record was to raise 170½ lb. in the one-arm snatch. In the one-arm clean and jerk he lifted 198 lb. and then later, feeling yet stronger, he lifted 203½ lb. This did not constitute a record because he did it on his fourth attempt (you only get three tries), and because in Switzerland lives a man who once lifted 230 lb. with one hand...
...Crimson 1932 balltossers seem to have hit their stride and have taken four straight wins. Charles Devens '32, crack hurler, will be on the mound this afternoon when his teammates attempt to add the scalps of the young Indians to their list of victims...
...usual equilibrist act as the bill's opener is excellent, the "death-defying, daredevil climax" really giving us a thrill. Haye and Sayre, the two man dance team are very good as long as they are dancing, but unfortunately they attempt to sing too often...
...Bernard monoplane arrived in Manhattan with its pilot Rene LeFevre on the Leviathan, to attempt the New York-to-Paris flight...