Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the history of earth's north polar cap approached the climax of its most stirring chapter, One great event, a sporting feat, came to pass-the first visit to the Pole by a man in an airplane. Other events impended hourly...
...hunger artists" melted away?all but one. He, persistent and nimble of thought, demanded a license "merely to eat in public"?to eat a whole 300-pound pig within ten days. Not to be thus circumvented, the officials ruled that "eating, in this sense, constitutes a feat of endurance...
...nose, now healing under a brown coat of iodine from the wound inflicted by a mad Irishwoman (TIME, April 12). The correspondents reported that, as often as Signor Mussolini's finger drew unconsciously near the afflicted organ, his iron will caused him to drop his hand-no mean feat, as all whose noses have itched can testify...
...herself the sterling artist she is. This began with the Grand Aria from "Dinorah" in which the demented heroine chases her shadow vocally and competes with a flute. Miss Hempel easily won the competition. The chromatic octave which she ascended and descended twice in one breath was a noteworthy feat. The pathetic "Schwesterlein" of Brahms, the rollicking humour of the "Lauterbach," and the uplifting serenity of the Joyous Easter Hymn brought the evening to its climax. Needless to say Miss Hempel was applauded to the echo...
Just such a feat was brought off last week by an employe of the Pond's Extract Co. The Chicago Tribune published a full page in the current Pond's Extract series of testimonial-persuasions, the central figure of which was attractive young Miss Elinor Patterson, daughter of Major Joseph Medill Patterson, the Tribune's owner and publisher. In no uncertain words the Tribune's 1,020,427* readers were let into the secret of how Miss Patterson's "lovely skin with its rare petal texture, its flush of unfolding youth, its transparent delicacy" is kept "imperishable" in spite...