Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week, a crowd of 16,000 went to see Venzke, Bonthron and Cunningham renew their rivalry, found that Venzke had learned the trick of sprinting at the finish, that Bonthron had lost it, that Cunningham was as fast as ever. When Cunningham broke the tape he was 2.6 sec. short of his record but he was first by 7 yd. Venzke, who had sprinted into the lead on the next to last lap, was second. Bonthron, in his first start of the season, was third...
...nice women. The jaded temptress is flighty, miserably unsuccessful in her constant attempts to be amusing, gives the appearance of having dressed by standing under a tree which shed upon her various garments including the saddest sort of red wig but an fond she is really quite nice. To finish the summation, the youth are sophisticated, inconsiderate and no more comely than their forebears, but, you no doubt are ahead of us this time, an fond they are really nice brats. With such a group of characters it would be difficult for "The Distaff Side" to be anything...
...large part of the pension cuts made by President Roosevelt in the name of Depression economy. In 1931 the Legion membership reached a peak of 1,050,000. Last year it was down to 887,000. This year, with the prospect of more cash, it hopes to finish with 1,250,000 dues-paying members. Three-quarters of the Legion membership is in small towns, the kind from which most Congressmen come. Each Legionary has four or five voting relatives and friends who will use their ballots as he suggests. This political combination is what makes the Legion lobby...
...biography. Ghostwriting her memoirs, he endangers the career of Edward Everett Horton, candidate for the Senate. Horton will lose the election if Every Week reveals the part he played in Miss Harding's early life. Montgomery and Harding go to a mountain cabin to finish the biography; Horton follows them; so does Una Merkel, the latter's fiancée. By this time Montgomery and Harding are in love and the issue between them seems to be whether he is willing to give up his career...
...half mile trail. The steepest single grade of the race is a twenty-five degree drop; the course averages a forty foot width. Base of operations will be the Mountaineering Club cabin on Mt. Washington and the race will begin at noon. From the placing at the finish of the race it is expected that the nucleus of the team will be selected by Coach Charles N. Proctor...