Word: laurels
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...bandy-legged Johnny Kelley scarcely worked up a sweat last week in the Boston Athletic Association's 49th annual marathon. Trotting briskly down asphalt Exeter Street, he waved a victor's clenched fist to the crowd, kissed his father and wheezed: "Pa, I made it." An oversize laurel wreath kept slipping over his ears...
...Japanese could see the end. From a Filipino just escaped from Japanese-held territory came word that General Tomoyuki Yamashita, onetime conqueror of the Philippines, had decided not to imitate other Jap commanders by remaining to die with his trapped troops. The general, together with José P. Laurel, quisling president of the Philippine puppet government, departed suddenly for Japan...
Thus last week, by a simple roll-call vote, did Sergei Vladimirovich Simansky (Alexei), 67, become the 13th Patriarch of the Holy Orthodox Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Church. This week he was crowned in the illuminated forest which arc lights and laurel decorations had made of Bogoyavlensk Cathedral. Unseen silver bells tinkled, rose to full tones as the Patriarch entered, wearing a white veil and miter, and a green silk robe with white and red stripes and golden cords over the shoulders. With the end of the elaborate service, Alexei's religious authority over 100,000,000 souls became...
Except for Saturday matinees in the neighborhood cinema circuit, the movie serial that reached its zenith of popularity with "The Perils of Pauline" has given way to series, unconnected in plot, but cast in the same mold: The Great Gildersleeve, Andy Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Crime Doctor, Doctor Gillespie, Fibber McGeo and Molly. People find these entertaining, just as they like familiar Tchaikowsky and spurn Shostakovich, but no further contribution to a stagnating film-art can come from such mechanically-whipped froth. To use the vernacular, when you've seen one, you've seen...
...wonders in Moscow whether Broadway has a firm grip on its laurel wreath. New York's theater still has, in my opinion, a slight edge on Moscow's-in scope, in splendor of production, in entertainment value, perhaps even in acting and in art. But at its present rate Moscow will soon be far ahead on all counts...