Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adventures of Maya (German). U. S. folk of all sizes and ages will go many times to see how the blunt bee survived the perfidy of the green spider and the mischief of hornets to bring the message of battle to his drowsy queen. This picture took six years to make and is a coherent, exciting story in which all the actors and actresses are insects. Best shot: the warring swarms among looted honeycombs...
...points to 1½. Loose-jointed young Horton Smith from Joplin, Mo., did not play in the foursomes. Instead he followed Leo Diegel and Al Espinosa who, playing the best match of the two days, beat Britain's Boomer and Duncan seven up and five to go. The U. S. won two matches, dropped one, tied another. By lunchtime the next day, British golf enthusiasts were jubilant. The British team was leading in four matches, three were tied, and only Leo Diegel of the U. S. was ahead. Sleek, droop-jowled Walter Hagen, British open champion and captain...
...Manhattan, Colyumist Elsie McCormick of the World told last week of a practicable use for live eels, also for umbrella covers. Procedure: place the eel in the umbrella cover, attach the umbrella cover to the rear of a Mephistopheles costume, go to a fancy dress ball...
...Significance. Author Hackett's Henry is immense. Others who have written biographically of the gigantic, simpleminded, "red-tempered," go-getter king include: Froude (hero worship in magnificent prose); Gasquet (colored with religious emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps...
...flying difficulty even slotted wings have not overcome: the falling of one wing and the consequent rising of the other. The plane tilts until it is liable to go into a spin...