Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Argentines, there was no star. All the Argentine mounts were superlatively swift, a little easier to handle than the U. S. ponies, though perhaps that was partly due to the way they were ridden. Argentine ponies, like Argentine players, get their training on cow-ranches; that makes them tougher, quicker to turn and readier to use their weight in riding off. They are not broken to polo until they are four or five years old; by this time they are stronger than ponies bred in England or on the playing fields of Westbury will ever...
...magistrate discharges the prisoner-gob, saying, "Instead of protecting you from these young men, we should protect them from you." This is not one of the best pieces, but it is one of Clara Bow's best. One Jack Oakie, as a sailor named "Searchlight," ought to get somewhere as a character actor with the flattest face on the two-dimensional medium. James Hall and the subtitles make the breezy gob almost true...
...chaser's enemy is the claim agent who tries to get the injured person to disclaim damages, or take at most a small money settlement. Insurance companies have such agents, and street car companies, railroads, taxicab systems...
Lawyers should get no more than one third of personal injury damages won. (Usually they demand one half.) The court should supervise...
Tomorrow evening at 8 O'clock, the Harvard Republican Club will get under way at a large meeting in the Union Living Room plans for further aiding the campaign of the Republican presidential candidate. This meeting will be open to members of the University...