Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appearance in Boston, "The Whole Town's Talking" begins to stand out as one of those rare performances which one enjoys more the second time than the first, and more the third time than the second. One is able at least to escape from the relentless grip of the fast-moving comedy to appreciate the skill with which every twist of the story is made to add a little more to the general excitement; one is not so entirely absorbed in following the action, one has leisure to ravel in the luxurious loveliness of Miss Owen, delightful mendacity of Frang...
...Freshmen on paper shape up as possible winners, for they have an undefeated season behind them, but the Crimson players, have come very fast in the last three weeks. Their record of eight wins and five losses becomes more impressive when one considers that the last four straight cames have been clean-cut victories over the Holy Cross Prince- ton, and Brown Freshmen, and the powerful Andover aggregation...
...couple spend their honeymoon serving on the same jury, whereupon the young wife is faced with the problem of passing judgment on a woman who shot the seducer whom the wife herself would have liked to shoot. It comes as a shock to her husband, with his hard and fast notions of right and wrong among women, that his wife is tarred with the same brush as the defendant, but he manages to get over it. The picture resorts to the favorite current system of wadding up a batch of stellar talent (Sylvia Breamer, Bessie Love, Myrtle Stedman, Henry...
...were given the other prize-money places were also Western horses. Thus the East found itself totally eclipsed. The time of the mile and a quarter race (2 min. 5 1/5 sec.) was 1 4/5 seconds slower than the record made in 1914 by Old Rosebud. The track was fast; the day, fair...
...first turn, he took him from sixth place to third on the five furlong* back stretch, and he brought him in a winner in the last quarter of a mile. Sande, who rode Zev to a victory over the English horse Papyrus last October, kept Bracadale at a fast pace all the way around the track. He was always in the lead for the first mile. It is possible that he intended to break the spirit of the other horses and clear the way for Bracadale's stablemate, Mad Play, ridden by a well-known jockey, Laverne Fator...