Word: ravens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vulture, the Crow, and the Raven, heirs apparent before Mosca has finished his work, are all carefully done, and rather better than either of the two feminine leads, Canina, using Blanca's method in man-hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney...
...Dean's most profitable ventures, she was a little "midin-ette." Later, she was a part Negress in Lulu Belle. Never married, her engagement has been reported with discouraging frequency; she eats lemons between meals to discourage hoarseness but her voice, nonetheless, is the voice of a dulcet raven. Her father was an army hospital steward and Lenore Ulric was born in New Ulm, Minn...
...sooty raven of hard luck creaked again, last week, at poor Edouard Herriot. His toboggan from power has been likened to that of David Lloyd George. Both men are time servers, gambling on the turn of the mob. The undoing of M. Herriot began when he dared to duel politically for the Prime Ministry of France (TIME, July 26, 1926), with wily Aristide Briand, who has held that office nine times. When Briand and the mob were done with Edouard Herriot he had been turned out of the Prime Ministry, after an incumbency of two days, and skinned...
...football player who has scored the most points this season is Kenneth Strong of New York University. The members of the Princeton team eat meals prepared by a small man, black as a raven, whose name is Swan. In the field house at Penn there is a notice on the bulletin board prescribing what Penn players must do each hour they are traveling to games...
Succeeding the America, the Atlantic was the first of the famed U. S. racing yachts which defeated the Earl of Dun-raven's Valkyries, and in recent years the various Shamrocks of Sir Thomas Lipton. It is usually a syndicate of N. Y. Yacht Club men who finance the defence. The three winning boats this century have been the Columbia, Reliance, Resolute. In memory of the first great triumph the boats race for "America...