Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the War, songwriters Al Dubin, Irving Mills, Jimmie McIlugh and Irwin Dash published a euphemistic parody, without continuity, called "Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo Vooo...
Will Rogers, five weeks out of hospital after an appendix removal, had to be "doubled" for in a cinema. As "Congressman Maverick Brander" he was supposed to come tearing out of a Washington, D. C., hotel in a nightshirt and swallowtail coat, leap on a horse, dash down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. One Fred Lacey, one-time cowboy, now a bus driver, was hired as the double. Hearing a report that his life was held too dear for riding, Mr. Rogers snorted, "Huh, I may be a bum rider but I figure I'm still man enough...
...poet, Alfred Noyes is credited with much studious innovation in metre and verse forms. But the fancies and profundities of his mighty lines are about as subtle and original as Kipling gone Tennysonian with an occasional dash of brine from John Masefield and a few zephyrs from Swinburne...
...imploring him not to attempt to return to Rumania, even for the funeral of their father, and advising him not to call himself "Carol II." Seemingly he resolved to take his sister's advice, although newsgatherers and photographers surrounded Carol's villa day and night, hoping that he would dash by airplane to Rumania and seek to claim the Throne...
...Judged by past performances, the pick of Yale's and Harvard's runners and jumpers were last week far ahead of an Oxford-Cambridge combination-until the day of the meet at Stamford Bridge, England. The worsted was stretched at the finish line of a 100-yard dash and the U. S. men continued in the lead as Al ("Truck") Miller, 200-lb. Harvard sprinter, charged in ahead of Bayes Norton, onetime Yale man now at Oxford. But other worsteds, stretched for races of 220, 440 and 880 yards, were soon broken by Runkel of Cambridge and Brown...