Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...runners have been working out daily since early in December the practice has been devoted to limbering up and conditioning them. Race and time trials will start immediately in order to give the coaches a chance to get a line on any promising material in the squad. Fast work of this nature will generally be held on Saturdays so that the runners may rest up over the weekend...
...summer have been covered by a multitude of cinemas. The Lone Eagle is one of the more petty. It describes the aeronautical antics of an aviator in the late war who. disproves a rumor of cowardice by winning a desperate air duel and a French girl. Film directors are fast learning how to make fainthearted habitues of the cinema grow dizzy at the sensation of being high up in the air. In this, The Lone Eagle is successful. The Lovelorn. On the staff of al most all important U. S. news-sheets there is a lady, sometimes impersonated...
...over in the gutter, drunk. A motorist, thinking him dead, picked up the rooster and carried him home. Inside the house, the rooster's owner looked at the bird with disgust. "He's always getting like that," she said. The rooster winked one red eye, croaked, fell fast asleep...
...what has been called "greatest novel in the world." Anna Karenina meets Count Vronsky one snowy day, has an affair with him that reaches its climax when she leaves her husband and its conclusion when she accepts a defeat (which is totally inevitable) by stepping in front of a fast train. That any film producer should begin by calling his picture Love and end it with this necessary but cinematically unconventional tragedy is only one of the many contradictions, which in their sum, make this one of the most striking adaptations yet effected...
...companionate marriage, characterized American civilization as "too feminine." "From the time that an American starts his education until he is almost ready for college, he is watched over and nursed by a woman." Mr. Russell declared, "business is the only masculine thing left in American life, and that is fast giving way before the invading woman...