Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saucy mischievous talent in a hectic tale of thieves and thievery. Mr. Brook in his calm imperturbable way is called upon to sleep below a dripping shower in the bath-tub. There are momentary chances for Lubitsch subtlety which are ignored. But the direction has added instead a dash of slapstick. Only one character in the picture is honest, and he turns out to be a policeman, which is a good enough joke in itself to show the irresponsible tendencies of the whole production. Along towards the end, however, just when we had hopes of witnessing a college between...
...York, February 23--Miller, the Harvard flash, captured the first event of the New York A. C. games at the Madison Square Garden here tonight, the 60-Yard Special Dash. Miller was first out of his holes and led Bowman of the New York A. C. to the tape in six and two-fifths seconds, one fifth of a second from the world's record. He beat the former Syracuse star by a scant foot. Hussey of Boston College placed third, five yards behind Miller...
Franz Werfel, the author, is concerned with the blind fling with which the gods dash the cup from mortal lips. Proverb calls it the slip. Werfel does not bother to define it. He is simply eaten up with a gigantic bitterness at a world which is given reason and at the same time irresistible fate, luck or a divinity that rips reason to ribbons. Werfel is annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which...
Nine Champions Assault Dash Mark...
...event of the evening, as far as the pubic goes will be the 40-yard dash for the Major Briggs trophy. It will combine the stars of all the sprint events in the K. of C. and Millrose A. A. games. Milland and Burns will try their luck against the collection of the world's greatest sprinters. Coach Farrell says of Miller's performance in New York Thursday night against a fair representation of these stars, "There was no daylight to be seen between Miller and Murchison at the finish of the dash at Madison Square Garden Thursday night. Murchison...