Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Irish Girl (Dolores Costello-Johnny Harron). This tale of the San Francisco underworld affords Dolores Costello the opportunity of playing the decoy for a grimy cafe of doubtful purpose. While she is concentrating on the business of luring in as many pocketsful of money as possible, there swims into her calculating ken the inevitable handsome youth - with whom she falls in love and to whose farm her comrades in crime depart in a body. Whereupon his grandmother proves that sharp wits are not all urban products. Miss Costello contributes another of her decorative and deft characterizations...
...fact that Maxey Long is the officially accredited holder of the world's record for the quarter mile, in which he was timed in 47 seconds fiat, in my opinion a better performance was made in 1915 by James E. Meredith at the National Championship in San Francisco in the Senior 440 yards, in which he equalled Long's mark, but the record was not allowed...
...vague tradition of the extreme sacredness of this temple has come down to the modern Indians, who resented our entering this place more than anything we did. This interesting fact came out during a cross-examination to which we were subject near the end of our trip by General Francisco May military commander of all the Indians of the territory of Quintana...
...Francisco, Calif...
Again the world's record for a hundred yards has been beaten; again the wind was at the runner's back. Philip Barber, running in front of a Pacific breeze last week in San Francisco, made the distance in 9 5/10 sec., beating by 1/10 sec. the accepted record, tying the mark recently set by Roland Locke of Nebraska...