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Flying Wedge in Heyday...
There were only a few plays for the quarterback to choose from. The flying wedge was in its heyday, there being only one way to stop it. To accomplish this the defensive teams would have to perform the highly dangerous maneuver of lying flat on the ground and trying to trip up the onrushing wedge. If they succeeded, there would be a great heap of about twenty men in the line of scrimmage, and no yards gained...
Madame Yvonne Magnan-Pellenc of Marseille comes of a long line of rich soapmakers. In the family's heyday, she says, her great-grandfather opened the Marseille Prefecture Ball by escorting the Empress Eugénie on his arm. In these rowdier days, Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has taken to the political soapbox. Her object is to organize women as "The Amazons of Peace." The amazonian slogan: "War on Man, to Get Peace for the World." The first step is to try to win for women the municipal elections of Marseille, where Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has rallied 283 Amazons...
...heyday (1911 to 1918), Bushman made $6,000,000 by showing that aquiline profile in more than 400 films...
Fildes (rhymes with shields) would not have been too surprised. In the daguerreotypes of his heyday, Sir Luke looked like any well-fed Victorian gent, complete with goatee, chesterfield, and top hat. But he was more: a member of England's Royal Academy and a painter of royalty, including Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and George...