Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that last day of the fast (Thanksgiving Eve in the U. S.) most of the soldiers were licking their chops in anticipation of the gorging they would do for the feast of Bairam during the next three days. Among their number, however, was one young sepoy who, half-crazed through abstention, ran amuck during the night. He forced his way into the tent of the battalion's major, with his rifle shot the major dead in his sleep. Aroused, five other officers-three British and two Indian-rushed to the scene. Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang,-the sepoy killed...
...land just one sound bolo punch, and the onetime triple champion, who had recently abandoned his featherweight crown, would have only one crown left. But Little Man Armstrong, looking like a pygmy, showed them that his famed strategy of getting in close and pounding away with both fists-fast, furiously and from all angles-is hard to solve, harder to beat. By the time Garcia succeeded in landing his bolo (in the twelfth round) it had lost...
...Another back hard to overlook is Tennessee's fast-stepping George Cafego. who has gone a long way toward making Coach Bob Neyland's Volunteers the No. 1 surprise of the year. Considered second-class by most pre-season prognosticators, Halfback Cafego & Co. ran up a string of eight victories in a row, made it nine last week against Kentucky (46-to-0), won the championship of the Southeastern Conference and wondered if they would get a bid to the Rose Bowl...
Actress Marcy Wescott is fair of face. Actress Muriel Angelus is full of grace. Eddie Albert, last year a frisky, puzzled Brother Rat. this year makes a no less puzzled Twin Brother Antipholus. Fast, lively, imaginative is the dancing. Casting, directing and timing are perfect. Dowagers leave the theatre like subdebs, whistling the most melodious tunes that a Rodgers & Hart musical has had in several years...
...finally landed odd jobs in stock. Once his father went to see him act, commented afterwards: "You're not very good, you talk too fast." Then, simply by walking in and asking for it, one day Clifford got a road-company job with Manhattan's Theatre Guild...