Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they won't hit you. Let's go." The men he thus summoned at the battle near Landres and St. Georges, he had made iron by drilling them to fight each other naked to the waist and to run miles in bare feet. A poet, Joyce Kilmer, had followed him jubilantly unto death. "Hard boiled'' they called him and terribly "Wild...
...plot concerns a collegiate playwright whose play wins the play contest after he has been threatened with expulsion from college for helping a "pal" pay a gambling debt. There are many agreeable details in Hello Yourself; among them the hushed rhythms with which Jimmy Ray moves his feet in soft shoes; the wild noises of Waring's Pennsylvanians; and the antics of disjointed Dorothy Lee who might have been drawn by John Held Jr. and whose right stocking is deployed in wrinkles...
Last week a silver arrow darted suddenly from the East (Roosevelt Field, L. I.), not over 500 feet from the ground, curved gracefully around Mines Field, Los Angeles, settled gently upon the turf. The thing that over 150 patient watchers had been awaiting, trembling with mingled anticipation and dread, had happened. The weary, perilous miles from coast to coast had been covered in 24 hours and 51 minutes. This was 2 hours faster than it had ever been done before...
...monster who held his shoulders and would not let him move. His legs were red with running; they twisted under him suddenly like sticks of cinnamon and he lay crumpled in the dirt just beyond the bicycle track. A man named McAndrews ran out and helped him to his feet; Dorando staggered three steps and fell again; two men helped him up this time; the track was full of people and Hayes, who had passed Hefferon, was in the stadium, running like the wind. Dorando fell the third time in front of the Queen's box and lay there wriggling...
Lions. In Dodoma, Tanganyika, Africa, the Duke of Gloucester, the third son of the king of England, with a perfect shot which brought the beast dead at his feet at the end of her interrupted spring, killed his first lioness last fortnight...