Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western European division; Elizabeth to Cecil Lyon, Third Secretary at Peiping; Anita to Robert English, Third Secretary at Budapest. It was Mrs. English who swam the Bosporus while her father was Ambassador to Turkey. He fed her chocolate from a boat and played a phonograph to help her rhythm...
...stage is presented an unusually long bill of vaudeville containing but few sparks of real entertainment. Vanderbilt and Daye are fairly good dancers and have created a dance to the rumba rhythm which is at least different. Ranny Weeks and his orchestra are mildly entertaining and manage to sound quite a bit like New York's Leon Belasco...
...even here De Mille is not up to scratch. Audiences that expect nothing less than a World War from him are likely to be disappointed that the most spectacular shot in Cleopatra is one of the inside of her barge with 500 oar handles moving slowly to the thumping rhythm of a large firegong. Eight thousand extras were supposed to have been hired for the picture, but the biggest crowd scene is a rabble of only a few hundred in the Forum...
...beat up to 37, splashed out to a lead of three quarters of a length. Yale, pulling a shade slower, crept up. The shells were even at the half-mile mark. At the mile, Yale was a third of a length ahead. The crews settled down into the rhythm of the race with Yale, smoothly stroked by Johnny Jackson, clearing its puddles by six feet at 30 strokes a minute, with Harvard getting less run out of a faster beat. By the time they came into the last mile, a smooth dark lane between two walls of yachts, there...
...Sidetrack, Connecticut, or Bar Harbor, and his winters in grammar school or the Reformatory. A common or garden variety of child was he, the kind that hides his food under his knife to feel his mother. His career in the secondary scats of learning was also uneventful, its monotonous rhythm being broken only by occasional changes of school on request of the headmasters, and flying visits to the jailhouse. Entering college Carlos ran for a while like a flywheel, and got off to a Huppuch start, good marks were his at November hours and mid-years. This success immediately went...