Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dolores Del Rio is definitely a beautiful lady. Pat O'Brien is said to have good points. Edward Everett Horton can be quite amusing. Busby Berkeley has been known to create clever choral monstrosities. With the above ingredients, tempered by a dash of Glenda Farrell, we have "Caliente" which aims to be a heady cinematic cocktail; it should be no shock to learn that like mice and men, movie magnates are also visited by the ganging agley of plans. In short: "Caliente" misses fire...
...meter dash--Cahners...
...meter dash--Calvin. 400-meter run--Abell...
...track & field sports. Slender, coffee-colored Jesse Owens, 21-year-old Ohio State Sophomore, tied one world's record, broke three, and emerged from the meet indisputably the ablest all-around track athlete currently functioning in the U.S. His records: 20.3 sec. for the 220-yd. dash (old record: 20.6 sec.); 22.6 sec. for the 220-yd. low hurdles (old record: 23 sec.); 26 ft., 8¼ in. for the broad jump (old record: 26 ft. 2½in., set by Chuhei Nambu of Japan in 1931). His tie: 9.4 sec. for the 100-yd. dash...
...Angeles boys piled up 82 points to California's 48, and Stanford's 26. It is in this Fresno meet that the best records of the year are usually made on the Coast. This year the spectators were treated to such routine performancs as a 9.5 100 yard dash, a high hurdle race which lied the world's record at 14.2, a toss of 206 feet in the javelin which was good only for fourth place, 219 feet winning the event, and a 6 foot 7 inch jump. 52 feet was the best distance in the shot...