Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While sailing primarily for pleasure, the organization has a tentative bid for a race next spring with the Dartmouth Freshmen...
Covarrubias believes that the Balinese became a race of artists because the rich land and their social organization gave them leisure, because art never became the exclusive possession of intellectuals, because the remoteness of Bali protected it from foreign influence. He found on the walls of North Bali temples, cheek by jowl with bas-reliefs of gods and monsters, some comic-strip carvings showing a fat Dutchman drinking beer, a man cranking a car, a highway robbery modeled after a scene in a cinema...
Columbia's Bessie Smith selections, from the numerous discs it cautiously labeled "race records" and ceased issuing about 1929, include: St. Louis Blues, simple and powerful, and Reckless Blues, accompanied by Louis Armstrong on the cornet and Fred Longshaw on a portable organ. Fletcher Henderson, who played the piano for her Weeping Willow Blues, with Joe Smith on the cornet, calls this the greatest blues record ever made. Careless Love is W. C. Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith...
Once upon a time there was a small edition of a chariot race in "Ben Hur," a minute earthquake in "San Francisco," and, unless memory fails, it seems the locusts came to call in "The Good Earth"; a few hundred extras were shot or trampled on in "Charge of the Light Brigade," but to see nature in the raw without once thinking of miniatures, wind machines, or water chutes, to see the best love scenes in many a moviegoing month, to experience two full hours of complete mental anguish, a trip to "Hurricane" is essential...
According to one of the rowers, not in the winning crew, there were icicles hanging on the bridges during the final Freshman race last Friday. At any rate Old Man Winter may play one of his tricks at any time, and the Newell Boat House authorities are not taking any chances...