Word: catches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blazing gas jet, swatting mosquitoes, helping arrange the term time-schedules of the college; Sumner, the inactive man, bicycling for his health, in uncharacteristic dowdy clothes, a cap pulled forward so that the bald cranium was revealed behind, pedalling at such a pace that his panting companion could not catch the scraps of conversation flung back at him; Sumner suddenly giving up smoking; asking for a picture of his physician's pretty child, looking at it constantly; pitching at one-o'-cat for his own boys, plunging through the blizzard of '88 to fetch them from their school; Sumner embarrassed...
Just as the presence of one literary lion redeems, for an ambitious hostess, the most supine soiree, so the presence of a single preeminent conductor enraptures the patrons of summer musical seasons in the U. S. The "catch" of the Hollywood Bowl is Sir Henry J. Wood, famed British conductor. Recently he put his two feet together on the dais, made his prettiest bow to an audience that was probably the largest of his expansive career-an audience that bulged over acres of ground and crowded into the aisle down which, as Sir Henry bowed, a platoon of Welsh bagpipers...
...Mandalay one of the most shattering in screen annals. The producers bought an old packet, buried dynamite fore and aft and set her on fire. Just before the blowup, they contrived to have Doris Kenyon and Lloyd Hughes evade the leopard that had escaped in the riot, and catch the last life boat. She had been an underworld wench; he was falsely accused of murder. Mostly as usual, except for the disruption of the Mandalay...
...gags of minstrel shows were amazed to discover that at Westfield, N. J., there is a Negro golf club-the Shady Rest Country Club. Broad piazzas it has, sofas, rocking-chairs, lounges, loggias, beds, in which a tired golfer-or one who may in the future play golf-can catch 40 winks. It has a dance hall, a dining-room, a grill, a reception hall, a ladies' room, a croquet lawn, a smoking room, the only colored golf professional in the U. S.- Robert E. Lee. These details appeared in the press when a controversy between the officers...
...Frank eagerly accepted his prizes, a gold medal and $500 in gold which his father, a millhand, said Frank would save towards college. Elimination bees in different cities had thinned out the competitors to nine state champions, who laughed to hear the cinchy words they began the finals with-"catch, black, grant, warm." First to drop out was Almeda Pennington of Houston, Tex., who slipped up on "skittish." "Scittish," Almeda spelled it. Mary Coddens, the little Belgian girl from South Bend, Ind., was next. She has spoken English only five years, but never faltered until she mixed "cosmos," the universe...