Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood's Darryl Zanuck once kept blonde, blowzy Gracie Fields under contract for eight months while he tried expensively to make something out of her that the U. S. would laugh at. But millions of Britons including the Royal Family find her so amusing that one of her shows, Mr. Tower of London, had a continuous run in England of seven years (1918-25). Sheer animal vulgarity, including flea-scratching and grimaces, makes her a frantic success in British music halls. So while King George receives only some $550,000 per year, chiefly for being dignified, Miss Fields last...
...Eight weeks ago when four "Mayfairites"-all public school men and one the son of a retired brigadier general-had invited a Cartier's salesman to their room in a West End hotel, knocked him on the head with a mallet and relieved him of $65,000 worth of jewels, the outraged British public demanded the young men get their punishment. Get it they did, last week. Lord Hewart, the stern Lord Chief Justice, handed down their sentences: for the four an aggregate of 16½ years in prison, for one 20 lashes, for another 15, with...
...crowd was not disappointed. With gaping mouths it watched jumper after jumper slant through the air-eight with leaps of over 200 ft.-but it was 130-lb. Birger Ruud who made the spectators gasp with his prodigious and perfect jump of 216 ft., a whizzing arc ending with the wood slapping evenly on the hard snow...
This did not please Michigan's Mann. Nor did it please Michigan rooters, because while Yale had been piling up a notable record* in the East, Michigan had won eight out of ten Big Ten championships, seven National Collegiate championships...
...their printed literature invariably refers to them-claim to be the "Accredited Messengers" of a group of spirits whom they call the "Ascended Masters." These include Christ and Moses, but their most articulate spokesman is one "Saint Germain." St. Germain, says Mr. Ballard, appeared to him on Mt. Shasta eight years ago, gave him a drink of "creamy liquid" of which "the electrical vivifying effect on my mind made me gasp with surprise...