Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King George and Queen Mary always put to sea to review the fleet was slept in by King Edward, tied to the dock at Portland. Rousingly cheered, His Majesty cried genially, "The last time I was at Portland, I was a midshipman!", proceeded to inspect the fleet from a fast admiral's barge...
...lands, Minnesota's Ted Balko, 1934 champion, was handicapped by rows so spotty that once he found only three ears in 15 feet, of which one was so small that it flew through a crack in his bang-board. Adam Byczynski, Illinois champion and a hot favorite, husked fast but carelessly. His creditable total of 1,630 lb. was cut down to 1,466 by penalties. Well short of the Byczynski gross but a shade ahead of his net was the score of a long-faced, 38-year-old Iowan who, dressed in tennis shoes, white duck pants...
...graces will not compensate for the lack of any human rattle and recklessness in hard-pressed Aaron Kane. Heroes and heroines of historical romance may be as incredible as Anthony Adverse or as absurd as Scarlett O'Hara, but they make good reading so long as they move fast, if it be only from one improbability to the next. A true romantic hero in all respects but this, Aaron Kane suffers from a lack of buoyancy, lands in one romantic situation after another but remains in it, paralyzed and pensive, like an actor who has missed...
...actors are competent, but in the first half the movie drags greatly. Action is fast and moving after Anthony's return to Europe, and the last part of the picture is fine entertainment. The movie simply takes too long to get started...
...Hayden Channing, the hardworking captain of the harriers ran a perfectly swell race when he came in third behind the fast stepping Vilbur Woodland of Yale and one of his teammates. Henry Marcy was right behind him also, but these two runners are about the only ones who can be counted on to do anything very spectacular...