Word: flyaways
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...lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. ¶ Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special...
...Yorkers remembered Klemperer for his height, for the flyaway gestures he used when he conducted the old New York Symphony in 1926 and 27. Those visits were brief, were no fair test. Back in Berlin he became director of the Berlin Staatsoper and six years later a martyr. Nazi youths pummeled him. When his contract had four years to run Adolf Hitler repudiated it because...
...would conduct the last Saturday matinee of its Manhattan engagement. But soon they bickered. Conductor Leginska wished to lead not one but four performances. The San Carlo rebelled-and at the scheduled Butterfly the audience watched the serviceable back of Carlo Peroni instead of the svelt velvet jacket and flyaway head of Leginska...
FLYING RINGS.The next event was the flying rings, for which there were three entries - J. B. Walker, '84 (black); G. B. Morison, '83 (white), and T. C. Bachelder, '83 (blue). The feats of Bachelder were noted particularly for their strength, while Morison, especially in his front flyaway, excelled in grace. Walker's socket motions were good. The whole exhibition was watched with great interest and was an excellent display throughout. Bachelder's back turn-over was an especially difficult feat and well executed. The event was won by Bachelder...
...will excuse me for being so horribly methodical, I will divide them into four classes, of each of which I will speak separately. The first consists of societies which have some serious object in view, which may be roughly described as the pursuit of Cape Flyaway; the second of open societies, which are devoted to amusement; the third of clubs proper, where you can get wine and cigars and gossip of the most correct sort at the cheapest price; and the fourth of secret societies, of which the objects are unknown and the names are forbidden words...