Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend, Dr. Monica (Kay Francis). While attending the mother, Dr. Monica learns of its parentage from Mary Hathaway's hysterical efforts to telephone the father. For a moment, Dr. Monica proposes to disregard the Hippocratic Oath. The arguments of another friend, present as a spectator, induce her to finish the delivery. Small illegitimate Hathaway gets better breaks than her close relatives. Her mother flies an airplane out to sea for a glamorous suicide. Dr. Monica and her husband, who is still ignorant that he is the father of the child, adopt the infant and seem delighted with her actions...
...blue ribbon, bought 18 observation-car tickets for himself and guests, smiled when the conductor counted them twice. Scattered along the course were most of the boats that started two days later for the race to Bermuda. Governor Cross of Connecticut was on a Navy cutter anchored near the finish. Notably absent was Vincent Astor's Nourmahal...
...lane between two walls of yachts, there was a length of open water between them. Drury sent his stroke up; Yale held its lead without raising its beat and then, when the last Harvard challenge failed, drew away by inches to a lead of 2¼ lengths at the finish. The time of the first Harvard-Yale boat race was not recorded. Yale's time last week-19:51.8-was a record for the four miles on the Thames, ten seconds faster than Harvard's in 1916. Even the losers last week were two fifths of a second...
...launches or on the train saw Cornell and Washington away first: watched California's scarecrow stroke Dick Burnley, make his first challenge at the mile; noticed the way Navy at the halfway mark held on behind California and Washington. At the railroad bridge, 1 mile from the finish, California began to challenge in earnest; Washington's stroke Ed Argersinger, sent his beat up and began to watch California whittle down his half length lead by inches...
...crowd on the yachts at the finish the whole regatta was packed into the last few seconds of the race. Amid an appalling uproar of sirens, whistles, horns and cheers, California's crew swept across the line first, sat straight up in their slides while Washington pulled in almost a length behind, leading Navy by a quarter-length...