Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bomboola. Out of the inexhaustible deeps of Harlem came this musical comedy, less percussive than last fortnight's amazing Hot Chocolates, tending more toward Negro moods of grace and .pathos. High spot: a party scene in which the dancing couples move their feet least of all and become revivalists at the entrance of the police...
...featured in a college story, finally starred in a succession of shoddy program pictures. Last fall von Sternberg directed her in The Case of Lena Smith, one of the year's best pictures. Now she has been demoted to doing "featured" parts again. She is 5 feet 5? inches tall, weighs 124 pounds, is not stupid...
...have allowed no grass to grow under our feet. We've already started conversations with the United States. I am not a prophet and I am not going to pose as one able to prophetize, but today we had the second conversation with General Dawes and Mr. Gibson, and I am very hopeful...
...Jones's second shot on the final hole. Heading for a trap to the left of the green the ball had stopped just short, in rough grass. The next thing Espinosa heard was a loud, but not wholehearted, cheer. Jones had pitched up, but his ball had stopped 12 feet short of the pin. "Let me look," blurted Espinosa and went to the locker room window...
...another great race, 475 miles from New London, Conn., to Gibson Island, Md. Twoscore other yachts sailed out of New London in a dripping fog the day after the Harvard-Yale crew race. During that thick night the Teragram missed the stern of Malabar VIII by a scant six feet. Then came clear weather, smooth sailing. Sachem and Nina, the first two yachts around Montauk Point, got the best wind after the turn. The Nina came in seven hours behind the Sachem, at night, but the Sachem had started at scratch because of her slight beam and because she carried...