Word: handicaped
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...clear from the opening scenes that Miss Bergner is going to have adventures. But it soon develops that she has already had a baby, somewhat obscurely identified. That is the handicap imposed upon her by the script. Furthermore, she is not very handsome. Thus for both artificial and natural reasons, Miss Bergner has great obstacles between herself and convincing her public that she can win and hold securely the affection of an immoral English musician. But she succeeds eminently, and explains clearly how she won an Academy award last year for this performance...
...bear their full share of responsibility. They lend anything but stability to the department and can contribute little in the way of concerted effort in directing the student's course of study. The sooner this transitional stage of using visiting professors extensively runs its course, the sooner a severe handicap to better organization and productivity will be demolished...
...first Boston performance the Hollywood Ballet proved itself an organization to be encouraged. The young body of dancers, labouring under a severe economic handicap that forbade the assistance of an orchestra, presented a program of mixed value, with admirable determination. Although the musical worth and choreography of their first three offerings, "Danse", "Le Maitre A Danser", and "Le Bonheur, Feerie", may be strongly questioned, the company more than redeemed itself with the continued brilliance of its costumes and the excellence of "Hollywood...
After the bad first canto, the Crimson came back to hold the enemy even in the second chukker and to outscore them in the third, but the six-goal handicap was too great to overcome...
...went quietly about the business of winning races. By September he had won six. He had beaten Discovery once, with a 29-lb. advantage in the weights which considerably diminished the prestige of the feat. When in October he beat Discovery again, this time in the Massachusetts Handicap after smashing Discovery's track record, turf followers were more impressed. Nevertheless Discovery remained the horse of the year...