Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every time a goal is made, a red light winks. Last week the fast-passing Rangers were leading the red-light parade with 135 goals, seven more than their nearest rival, the Toronto Maple Leafs. To the confusion of casual readers of sports pages the individual scoring heroes were two gentlemen named Dillon and Drillon. Cecil Dillon, Ranger forward, was leading the American Division last week with 20 goals and 17 assists for a total of 37 points for the season. He stood, however, well behind the leader of the International Division, 187-lb. Gordon Drillon of the Maple Leafs...
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...riding days had won 967 races (including three Kentucky Derbies and five Belmont Stakes), earned $3,000,000 for his employers, and had the reputation of being able to do more with a horse than anyone else in the world, hunch money last week was going down fast on Sande-trained Stagehand. But seasoned railbirds figured that the Sande protege, a slow starter, would get into a jam in the crowded field...
Last week he published his book. Action at Aquila, that might be considered the North's answer to Gone With The Wind. Lovers of high-minded, fast-moving romance could congratulate themselves that two such romantic novelists had joined battle, and hope that the war would last a long time. A brief book compared with Anthony Adverse (369 pages to 1,224), Action at Aquila has few of the ponderous, philosophical passages that weighed down its predecessor. It is a stirring affair of gallant colonels, devoted bodyguards, faithful wives, brave generals, beautiful horses, loyal troops, narrow escapes, magnificent scenery...
...kind. An adventurer's courage, says Craig, "is simply something that keeps logic from working ... it is something-like blue eyes or red hair or six fingers-which some men have and others do not. . . ." Despite this analytical beginning, Danger Is My Business is just another fast-moving, breezily written adventure book. But its last half -devoted to deep-sea diving-adds interesting variety to the hackneyed pattern of adventure tales...