Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crews settled down into the rhythm of the race with Yale, smoothly stroked by Johnny Jackson, clearing its puddles by six feet at 30 strokes a minute, with Harvard getting less run out of a faster beat. By the time they came into the last mile, a smooth dark lane between two walls of yachts, there was a length of open water between them. Drury sent his stroke up; Yale held its lead without raising its beat and then, when the last Harvard challenge failed, drew away by inches to a lead of 2¼ lengths at the finish...
...Life of Vergie Winters (RKO). Vergie Winters (Ann Hardingj is another of the cinema's unhappy heroines in the same boat as Madelon Claudet, Mary Lane in Only Yesterday and Ray Schmidt in Back Street. Her marathon of discontent starts when she is 20 and shows no sign of stopping when the picture ends with her release from jail, at 42. The man she loves, John Shadwell (John Boles) marries someone else, under the mistaken impression that Vergie has jilted him. Vergie gives birth to an illegitimate daughter named Joan. John and his rancid wife Laura (Helen Vinson) adopt...
...world "commodity conscious." Nothing much ever happens marketwise in either black or white pepper and nothing at all in shellac since the Japanese cornered the market in 1924. Shellac sold as low as $9.15 per cwt. during the Depression, is now $28.80 but the shrewd men from Mincing Lane cannot forget that shellac was once squeezed to $200. There is no futures market in shellac or pepper in the U. S. but Ben Smith would like to see one. This was not the first time that Ben Smith had warmed up to a commodity. Early in Depression when all other...
...president-elect of Williams. For more than two months Princeton seniors have borne on their white "beer suits" a Blue Eagle with President Dodds's head replacing the bird's. Next week the president was to hand their own class president Arthur Stephen ("Princeton's Best") Lane, the key to the university. Then Senior Lane would lead his 450 classmates behind Nassau Hall where, puffing long-stemmed clay pipes to be smashed on the Princeton cannon when the ceremonies were over, they would hear his presidential address and the class history...
...Nancy Lane, hire her as a substitute Princess for $10,000. Fluffing her hair and affecting an accent, the substitute prepares to travel through the U. S. as a lure to bond-buyers. Meantime a crusading publisher (Gary Grant) launches an attack upon Taronian and all other foreign loans. Princess Nancy is offered $5,000 extra to distract the publisher's attention from his front page. She succeeds so well that the two fall in love. A sleuthing reporter and a low-grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when...