Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard years of surveying Lord Fairfax's estates and fighting Indians in the wilderness. Again, Peale caught him flushed with victory after the Battle of Princeton. In Gilbert Stuart's famed, unfinished Athenaeum ("dollar bill") portrait, Washington is the First President, matured with the cares of Government, his military dash gone with his teeth. To William Williams, who painted him in full Masonic regalia for the Alexandria, Va. lodge, he was a ruddy-nosed old aristocrat full of honors and years, the owner of property worth more than...
...EVELYN PRENTICE--William Powell, Myras Loy and Una Merkel get together again and turn out a really super-sophisticated mystery story. The story isn't particularly new, but a couple of original twists, a dash of humor, and a bit of smooth production work bring a really entertaining production...
...CONTENTED HOUR -- With a complement of smooth singers and the smooth announcing of Jean Paul King, the orchestra under the direction of Morgan L. Kastman provides a "contenting" hour of music. A few old-timers, a bit of the chemical, and a dash of the sophisticated modernism, bring a universal music appeal to this program. (NBC WKAF network, Mondays...
Still 140 mi. from his goal, Scott with Wilson, Bowers, Gates and Evans split off from the others for the final dash. They reached the Pole on Jan. 16, were staggered to find a black flag left by Amundsen. "Great God!" Scott wrote. "This is an awful place, and terrible enough for us to have labored to it without the reward of priority...
...dash down the three-quarter mile course, which ended at the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, was run off at 4.30 o'clock when at Bert Haine's command the 64 oars hit the water. A cross wind made the blade work sloppy, but the first-year men crossed the finish line after 4 minutes and 10 seconds, with the third Varsity and 150 pound crews coming in not far behind. Fourth, fifth, and sixth positions were taken by three crews of inexperienced Freshmen, stroked by Myer, Bennett, and McClennan. The tail-enders were the two other boats of experienced Freshmen...