Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard it may prove for the politicians to come to an agreement strikingly appeared last week at London, where the Young Plan was mercilessly flayed by David Lloyd George, balance-of-power man in British politics...
...Royal swans are left unmarked. Dyers' swans have one nick cut in their bills, Vintners' swans two nicks. The task is made no easier by the fact that parent swans are extremely aggressive. They can bite and they can kick. They can buffet with their bony wings hard enough to break a man's arm. Yet they must be caught and securely tied in the bottom of the boat before the cygnets can be nicked. To a Swanherd a male swan is not a cock swan, or a drake swan, or even a bull swan...
Strauss: the Waltz King (German). A formless, well-acted, full-length silent biographical film tells how Johann Strauss became a composer in spite of his father's opposition. It is hard to believe that young Strauss's life was as fantastic as this but the important facts are authentic and the scenarist's guesses about the detail are as,; good as anyone's. You lose interest in Strauss but do not give him up for good until he is playing his own tunes at the wedding of his sweetheart to another fellow. Silliest sequence: Strauss jilting the pastry cook...
With the cup at stake, young Player Lott played hard and headily. He took ten games from Cochet, including the second set at 6-3. But his brilliant shots were mixed too much with just-misses. His backhand was specially spotty. He let Cochet have the next-to-last...
...Aikens had to start out against the Old Oaks, junior champions in 1928, a team commanded by hard-riding Oldster Howard S. Borden with able young Michael Phipps at No. 1. They rode through to a 10-to-7 victory after trailing by two goals in the third chukker. Then they had to play the Greentrees. After four chukkers they were behind seven goals...