Word: filler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Borrow or Steal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frank Morgan, as a "steerer" of European tourists, poses as proprietor of a chateau in order to provide for his visiting daughter, Florence Rice. The dialog is wittier and the characters better rounded than usual in this type of program-filler...
...Void Filler...
Kirkland would appear to be rapidly acquiring an athletic reputation, for this year it points to keeping its football championship, and yesterday it won the House Track Meet. Though the Deacons captured only one of the eight events, they provided enough filler to come out on top in the final scoring: Kirkland 29 1/2, Leverett 27, Lowell 25, Eliot 23 1/2, Adams 10, Winthrop 4, Dunster...
...early days, A. S. P. C. A. devoted itself to such matters as the ruthless over-crowding of calves and cows in shipment, the plucking of live fowl, the mixing of marble dust in horse and cattle food as filler. Nowadays such societies are busy with such diverse matters as inspecting poultry markets, removing injured animals in ambulances, extricating stranded cats from trees...
Running a two-mile race as a program filler at last year's Princeton Invitation Track Meet, barrel-chested Donald Ray Lash of the University of Indiana proceeded to dash the eight laps in the fastest time ever recorded for the distance outdoors. This year Princeton, hoping for another sensation, invited him to run the mile against Archie San Romani, Luigi Beccali of Italy and Glenn Cunningham, world's record holder. Gene Venzke also entered to shoot at the world mark for three-quarters of a mile, incidentally pace the other four...