Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Movietone Follies of 1929 embeds a musical show in the conventional cinema story about an understudy who got her chance. Dancing intervals, punctuating the Negro comedy of Stepin Fetchit, get across by such not entirely original, but fairly effective devices as photographing all the girls' feet at once or all their eyes. One good color sequence partly makes up for mediocre tunes. Best shot: backstage hands on opening night...
With the sunset gone and darkness settling down upon Bury Hill, the master of Arundel Castle had still to set the final signal of his coming of age. Just outside the castle grounds at a bald spot on the hill there towered 40 feet into the night a pile of 3,000 faggots cut from Arundel copses, woodsmen had guarded the pile from pranksters and now watched with relief their master approach and throw the flaming torch to set the fire off. Yellow tongues licked up the oil and shot toward the dark sky. Soon in all the seven counties...
Counters at least one and a half meters high (five feet), out of reach of any but the tallest barflies' elbows...
...previous World Fairs have had vast classic façades which wearied the eye; interminable promenades which wearied the feet; monotonous planning, usually in squares, which wearied the mind. The Chicago planners are determined to permit none of these fatiguing conventions. Architecture will be imaginative rather than historical. Transportation will be ubiquitous (monorails, moving sidewalks, boats). Planning will be organic, molding the entire Fair into an architectural unit...
...Sidney Kieselhorst, champion last year, did the 220-yd. low hurdles in 23 3/10 sec., breaking a record which had stood since 1898-almost. Officials refused to allow Kieselhorst his record because of a "tail wind." For the first time, three intercollegians threw the javelin more than 200 feet-Stanford's Leo Kibby winning with...