Word: foot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mme Clémentine Delait, 74, France's most famed bearded woman; in Epinal. Because her café, where she peddled picture post cards of herself (mustache, sideburns, foot-long beard), prospered, Mme Delait repeatedly spurned the overtures of importunate circus-owners...
...stand on a curbstone for hours so that their saucer-eyed brood may catch a glimpse of the first gaunt & gasping runner plodding along Commonwealth Avenue, and for motorists who are forced to detour all around town, the Marathon is a notorious nuisance. But for chronic gawps, students of foot racing and officials of the Boston Athletic Association (who sponsor the run), it is a great event...
...route, from the little town of Hopkinton-via Natick, Wellesley and Newton -to the Boston A. A. clubhouse on Exeter Street. But the rain that was responsible for the smallest turnout in many years was also responsible for a new record in the annals of the ancient sport of foot racing...
This year Ellison ("Tarzan") Brown, 24-year-old Narragansett Indian from Westerly, R. I., did not follow his usual custom. He hung back, let Leslie Pawson, the favorite, go out in front. At Natick the Rhode Island Redskin (whose Indian name, Attuck-Quock-Wussete, means Deer-foot) found himself leading the pack, along with Walter Young, 1937 winner. Together they loped along for twelve miles...
...film an unfair advantage over sentimental audiences, and Actress Davis plucks every heartstring she can lay a finger on, under Edmund Goulding's delicate, direction she makes Dark Victory moving but not morbid. The picture allows pretty, able newcomer Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights) to put a shapely foot forward, gives Humphrey Bogart, as an Irish groom who loves Judith for her breeding, a chance to act without a gun up his sleeve. Memorable sequence: Judith trying to put her horse over a jump on a morning when her hangover is worse than usual...