Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of Mr. Grew, though he is a Republican and cousin-by-marriage to J. P. Morgan, there is no incongruity whatever that he should be the President by a routine feat of diplomatic ectoplasm. Both men are Old Grotonians who have called each other "Joe" and "Frank" since boyhood. Both, too, are the rich sons of landed squires who sent them to Harvard as a matter of course. Yet the Forgotten Man is passionately sure that "Frank" Roosevelt remembers him. and "Joe" Grew has a like reputation among local U. S. residents of all classes wherever he has held...
Certainly Harvard's spirit, in the first category, was the outstanding feature of the day. No one gave the Crimson much chance of setting back Fritz Crisler's beautifully drilled and tremendously potent warriors, but that feat of holding the Tiger to 7-0 for three periods was a moral victory in itself. Spirit and fight have certainly returned to Cambridge. The amazing thing is that there was only one substitution in the Harvard line at center. The rest of the linemen played for 60 minutes and did a fine job, considering the opposition they were facing. Captain Herman Gundlach...
...other, and yet, as they sped past the pillared balconies, the waiting men below observed their speed to be the same, then with resounding thud, they fell simultaneously to the soft grass below, landing as one object. The outspoken comments of the gathering rose to loud clamor at this feat of nature. Should a heavy body fall faster than a light one? The man in the balcony leaning perilously above, waited, then turned and descended the winding steps. The intellect of the man Galileo had proved a fact of science...
...Paul one night four years ago, Pilot Mal Bryan Freeburg of Northwest Airlines spied a flaming railroad trestle, flagged a crack passenger express to a stop with his emergency landing flares, saved many a life including that of Golfer Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr. For that feat he received a gold watch from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., $100 from the Chicago Daily News...
Whatever talents as an actor Henry Cabot Lodge's grandson may have are set off to poor advantage by the picture. A tedious hyperbole in which Director Josef von Sternberg achieved the improbable feat of burying Marlene Dietrich in a welter of plaster-of-paris gargoyles and galloping cossacks, it seems all the more inadequate by comparison with Elizabeth Bergner's Catherine the Great...