Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ways than any other actress on the Parisian stage) will lead the company. Eye-gouging, vitriol-throwing and premature burial are some the jovial themes employed in previous Grand Guignol productions. R. U. R. is opening in London shortly. A robot with a genuinely English accent should be the height of something or other-ingenuity, perhaps. The outdoor show business at Coney Island is almost in full swing. Hot dogs sizzle along the boardwalk-barkers bark-"the only genuine saltwater taffy" clogs conversation everywhere. The most popular new attraction at present at Coney is said to be a ride...
Clapp is a first year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut last year and was studying philosophy in the University as a holder of the Henry A. Terry Fellowship. He is five feet ten inches in height and weighs 140 pounds. He is believed to be wearing blue serge trousers, khaki shirt, and white tennis shoes. His hair is medium brown and is parted in the middle...
Charles E. Hughes: " I attended a skit of the State Department Dramatic Club in which I was represented on the stage. Asked an interviewer : ' Mr. Secretary, can you tell us the height of the Washington Monument ? ' My double replied: ' Really I can't comment on that; but I may say confidentially that it is said to be 555 feet high...
...weeks Mr. Gatti gave 169 performances of 40 different operas. When you con sider the amount of preparation and rehearsal that even a moderately spectacular opera needs, these are stunning figures. Morale. Now, if you strolled casually into the artists' entrance of the opera house during the height of the season and observed the laughing, joking, careless manner of the groups of singers and musicians whom you would encounter, you might easily vow that it was impossible properly to put on so many productions with such an air of levity prevailing-an air so different from the orthodox solemn...
Consider this: heavy crews invariably arrive at top speed slowly; Freshman crews invariably reach their maximum development early-and often "burn out" afterwards (take warning, Freshmen!); the University is very heavy; the Freshman crew is unusually uniform in height and weight, and is consequently able to get together quickly. Who can be sure how they will compare in two weeks...