Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blind landing, set five national and two international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost a leg in a crash at sea as a Russian ace in World War I, is proudest of his feat in designing the first pursuit plane to exceed 300 m.p.h...
Last year the Varsity, captained by Howie Mendel, won five games and lost three, and brought its season to a close with a 2 to 1 victory over Yale. Mendel scored against Yale in all of his three years as a Varsity member, a feat which has never been surpassed...
Ever since the regime of Madero, comedians below the Rio Grande have savagely sniped at pompous Mexican politicos. Famed is Comic Roberto Soto for his feat of kidding Calles' Labor Boss Luis Morones out of office. An oldster now, Soto's wit is not so sharp as it used to be, and he has been supplanted in favor by a thin, big-eyed, loose-jointed youngster of 28, who was christened Mario Moreno, is known throughout Mexico today as Cantinflas...
...McGinty career starts one election day when Dan is picked off the streets, casts 37 votes at $2 apiece. This feat attracts the attention of the Big Boss (Akim Tamiroff), who puts McGinty's broad shoulders and hard fists to work shaking down protection money from recalcitrant clients. Before long McGinty is an alderman, shaking taller trees. When the Big Boss gets tired of the mayor and organizes a reform party to throw him out, he tells McGinty that he can have the job if he gets married. McGinty forms an expedient attachment to a widow (Muriel Angelus) with...
...Hawk (Warner) is 1940's lustiest assault on the double feature. It cost $1,700,000, exhibits Errol Flynn and 3,000 other cinemactors performing every imaginable feat of spectacular derring-do, and lasts two hours and seven minutes...