Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin the military expert of the Tageblatt declared: "It might not be a feat of madness on Mussolini's part to invade the Nile Basin. We believe Italy could obtain the mastery of Egypt without the firing of a single shot in the Mediterranean...
Fired by the news of the Channel Fleet's feat, the North Sea Fleet at the Nore next tried to organize a strike of its own. Captain William Bligh, once of the Bounty, now of the Director, was one of the first officers to be put ashore. More aimless and violent than the Spithead mutiny, this "floating republic" made the mistake of threatening a Government that had just made all the concessions it felt like making. When the Admiralty tried to starve them out by cutting off their supplies, the mutineers retaliated by trying to blockade the Port...
First a Girl (Gaumont British) presents Jessie Matthews of the pretty legs, drooping mouth and banjo eyes, pretending to be a girl impersonating a man impersonating a girl. In performing this feat she is abetted by her real-life husband, Sonnie Hale. When the two first meet, she is a couturiere's stage-struck messenger girl, he a music hall female impersonator. He catches cold, loses his voice, induces her to take his place. She is so great a success that, for the purposes of the picture at least, to withdraw is inexpedient. Offstage she wears gentlemen...
...brains near Los Angeles 13 years ago, a hammer seemed to California editors the most glamorous of all murder weapons. Last week a Los Angeles citizen interested enough to buy copies of all his local newspapers could have pieced together the following picturesque account of Mrs. Willys' feat...
...exuberant but anxious student called us up Saturday morning--exuberant over his previous night's conquest of Weeks Bridge with bottle and automobile but anxious to know if he were the first to accomplish this feat...