Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Realm, and their servants, maid and man. The Lord hopes to secure the lady for himself. Failing in his bluntly amorous attack, he sets his servant the task of seducing and humiliating her. In the process the slightly battered courtesan and the discreetly handsome manservant fall in love and dash off, as the curtain falls, to a London marriage altar...
...yard return of a punt from midfield by J. P. Chase '28, Sophomore safety man followed with a long dash through center by Stephen Van Rensseleaer '28, paved the way for the 1928 team's lone score yesterday, when it defeated the Junior eleven 7 to 0 on the Freshman field. In the Senior-Freshman clash which also took place yesterday afternoon, the first year men, humbled their older opponents 7 to 0, when R. B. Covel '29, made a brilliant 50-yard dash for a score after intercepting a pass in midfield...
Spanish operations against the Riffs became notably spectacular when several Spanish battalions made a dash in motor trucks southeastward from Ajdir, covered some 20 miles across the plain, and established themselves at Syan on the east Moroccan front. Thus they linked up with their allies the French forces, which have advanced into that region from Kifane, and apparently the Spanish thrust came as a complete surprise to both French and Riffians. If the move is consolidated into a strong series of military positions, it may well forestill the possibility of French forces attempting to operate in the so-called Spanish...
...crowd on Mitchel Field, Long Island, watched a covey of 16 airplanes, some big, some small, all noisy, whirl once around the flying field and diminish until they were no more than a dash of black pepper on the horizon. The planes in that covey were the entrants in the first race of the Mitchel Field Airplane Tournament...
...losing ponies, breath and weight in the arduous passes. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, was to proceed at once with their heavy bag back to civilization, via Russian Turkestan and the Caspian Sea, collecting as he went. They, the hunters, with a small, light-geared party would dash once more into the Pamir Mountains to the northward, whither they had started last month but turned back when they found that the special object of their arduous climb to "the rooftree of the world," the fabulous ovis poli (Marco Polo sheep), was shedding his summer coat...