Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dietary recommendations of those without real scientific standing in the community. Some of the advocates of freak diets are sincere, but are, themselves, deluded. Others are fakers. ... If the deductions of many food faddists, accepted as facts, were really operative, it would be difficult to explain how the human race has survived...
...particular, as the King's oldest son, the conception has a special importance, which, in whatever part of the empire I may be, I always try to keep in my mind. The Crown stands above all distinctions of country, race and party, and serves to mark the unity in which all such differences are transcended...
...insurgent leaders in Mexico, the first opportunity for an orderly change of government will be the Mexican presidential election of 1928. The present reactionary Mexican group headed by President Calles will, of course, put Senor Calles' old and strong friend onetime (1920-24) President Alvaro Obregon into the race, but who is the chief pro-Catholic candidate...
...Robson). Aunt Mary's nephew enters an automobile race and she clambers into the car to feed him pumpkin pie while he roars around the track. The heroine (Phyllis Haver) fears this will be the death of the 70-year-old lady, so she commandeers an ambulance and tears after them. In the end, everybody is feeling fine, including the audience and a patient who is discovered crawling out of the ambulance...
...automatically to five. Even this was cut down a few days last week by the prison authorities who had reason to think that if Horatio Bottomley was released on the date previously announced he would be met at the prison door by a huge admiring crowd of onetime soldiers, race-track folk, stage people and vague legions of "the lower classes." To prevent this scandal, the prisoner was hustled out of jail and despatched to his Sussex home in a discreet motor...