Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asquiths, the Desboroughs, Lord Cowdray, Lady Leicester, Lord Colebrook, Lady Northcote, Premier and Mrs. Baldwin and Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Chamberlain. Among the Americans present were Ambassador Herrick, Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, Cora, Countess of Strafford, Lady Astor, Frederick Sterling, Counsellor of the U. S. Embassy; Ray Atherton, First Secretary; Boylston A. Deal, special attache. The men were dressed in court costume, the ladies in expensive gowns. The banquet over, the King and the other gentlemen stayed to crack the usual jokes and discuss the usual topics over their port and nuts. The King, said to be particularly...
...Joie Ray, U.S. runner, shot from the starting line like a sprinter running a dash, circled five laps of Madison Square Garden without slackening. Behind him came three runners. Behind them came Nurmi. The crowd roared. Ray was the favorite. Was it not a ¾ mile race?his best distance? Had not his world's record (3 min. 5 sec.) stood unmenaced for eight years? On, on went Ray; he was two laps from the end, one lap. Then suddenly, soundlessly, a great wind passed him. Woefully he looked upon a pair of heels, the heels of Paavo Nurmi. Eight...
Next night again at Madison Square Garden, Nurmi, running in the Rodman Wanamaker 1 ½ mile Special, covered that distance in 6 min. 39 2/5 sec. ?2 2/5 seconds under the record made by Ray two years ago. Ray started in the race. At the end of the third lap, pressing his hand to his side in the fashion of one stricken with a cramp, he dropped out. "Boo," went the gallery. But the gallant Ray, having many times given proof of his courage, trotted heedless to the locker rooms...
...father is played in the manner of the best crabs by Mr. Robert McWade. Miss Blyth Daly, as Geraldine Marsh, the orphaned friend of the family turned housekeeper, entirely satisfactory as the Pollyanna minority, and shows a distinct appreciation of the part. Mr. Albert G. Andrews, as the Ray, Philip Dow, makes an ass of the person in the most approved fashion...
Tibbetts is entered in the Mayor Curley invitation mile, a distance better suited to his stride than the half. The mile race is due to be fast since Lloyd Hahn, Leo Larives, and Ray Dodge are entered...