Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that have reappeared only occasionally in pictures since the western became outmoded-speed, action, outdoor settings, and the suspense of the greatest and simplest of all plots: flight and pursuit. They have arranged this show from episodes taken from the life of Billy the Kid, famed oldtime western Robin Hood. The sheriff who idolizes the man he is chasing, the pure and lovely young girl who sticks to Billy through his dangers, the villains who are nasty simply because it is their nature to be so, are all properly represented. Their activities are photographed on a big screen which...
...tournament started and putted round and round the Fairyland course, where every hole is named for a fairy story with little statues of the characters -gnomes, animals, little people-as hazards, direction posts, decoration. By long practice the people from Jacksonville learned to play Cinderella, to kill Red Riding Hood, to fool Little Miss Muffet. Of course, Chattanooga putters had practiced on the course a lot too, but they were rattled by competition with the outland contestants. Impulsive Chinese Grace Moy of Brooklyn arrived in her car late one evening and went right out to play. She was up early...
Baker, Heller, Walinchus and Hood of Pittsburgh's backfield got more of a work-out than they expected against some tough West Virginians. Pittsburgh 16, West Virginia...
...great bay horse in a red hood, with a white blaze on his nose, moving around a curve, down a midway, in a seemingly effortless gallop of matchless speed and strength; a jockey in a scarlet cap and white shirt splashed with great red polka dots?all season this has been the most exciting thing to be seen on U. S. tracks: William Woodward's Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up. Last week on the last day of racing at Belmont Park, L. I., Gallant Fox won his ninth great victory of the season, the Jockey Club Gold...
...result: "Bob Hunter, or The Boss of the Rum Runners." Because, like Merriwell, Bob Hunter must be of eminently sterling worth, he will be enmeshed in illegal activities against his will, his conscience and his judgment. Many of the episodes will deal with the persistent efforts of this Robin Hood to go straight. Crime must...