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Herex: "The cast, though accidentally chosen, was splendid for type. . . . The star, Dorothy Pollak, pretty enough to get by if she knows her lines, and simply but smartly dressed in the funeral finery she wore on the sad occasion when she tried to hurl herself into the late Joe's grave (see earlier installments...
...team and causes them to squabble with each other. It looks as if Klopstokia may lose after all until W. C. Fields begins lifting weights. He loses his temper while doing so. This causes him to raise a 1,000 Ib. lump which no one else can budge and hurl it so far that in addition to the first prize for lifting weights, he gets first prize in the shot-put. Most able runner in Klopstokia is a ratty major-domo (Andy Clyde). He practices, on the way to the games, by getting out of the train and running along...
Devens has the call for mound duty this afternoon, so Taylor will probably hurl against Trinity tomorrow in Hartford...
...hurl such a proclamation at high-spirited New South Welshmen was risky. "But surely every step must be taken!" cried Premier Lyons' wealthy Cabinet colleague Stanley Melbourne Bruce. "Surely everything possible must be done to check this man [Premier Lang] who is a menace to Australia in his mad career...
...shot off or an eye shot out), a spontaneous movement rose to volunteer as "human bombs." Such a Chinese, first soaking his clothes and bandages in gasoline, would hug a bomb to his breast with his one remaining arm and run as fast as he could to hurl himself & bomb against the Japanese. Not many "human bombs" reached their mark. Most blew up and burned up as the heroic Chinese ran into the leaden teeth of Japanese machine gun fire. Not in Shanghai but in London an English lay preacher started a movement to enlist Occidentals willing...