Word: bred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foundation of good symphony playing. They do, however, go in for American noise. The severely played jazz is a frightful row, stiff, harsh and unattractive. It is even worse than the genuine American jazz, though it does not so greatly offend the refined instincts of accurate time of those bred to high music...
James Scott is dead. He was put to death by the premeditated violence of yokels who believed in their gross way that they were maintaining the honor of the race that bred them. What they did, some people call murder; others, lynching...
...Joseph Schildkraut, as the vainglorious Peer, has to pass from youth to age in two moves. ROMEO AND JULIET-Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters put new life into old romance. Juliet's charm captivates not only Romeo but the entire audience. Moscow ART THEATRE-The Moscow players have bred in theatre-goers a fine contempt for barriers of language. The inspired realism of their acting conveys their meaning almost as adequately as words. In this last week in New York they are presenting a complete repertory. THE GOD OF VENGEANCE-The daughter of the keeper of a brothel succumbs...
CALIFORNIA: The first Chinaman ever to be impaneled on a jury in San Francisco was Frank H. Tape, 30, born and bred in America...
...nine days' talk of London is Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, American sportsman. Sanford's 13-year-old gelding, Sergeant Murphy (by General Symons, out of Rose Craft, English bred) won the Grand National, the steeplechase classic of the world, over the Aintree Course, near Liverpool, the most hazardous four miles known to the racing turf. It was the first time (and this was the 83rd Grand National) that an American horse has won. Out of 28 starters only seven horses finished. Sergeant Murphy went to the pole at odds of 100 to 6 against and finished three lengths beyond the field...