Word: roache
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French sportsmen are pleased and exhilarated over a new sport at the Riviera's foremost summer resort, swank Juan-les-Pins-races of thoroughbred cockroaches. Bookmakers cover bets of thousands of francs on each roach race. Racing roaches run in narrow tracks covered with glass. Each roach is numbered with white ink. At the starting line they are restrained by transparent covers. At the finish line is a large black box, invitingly open. At the starting signal a strong light is switched on behind the roaches, their covers removed. Mortally hating bright lights, the roaches run for the darkness...
...Roach told County Attorney Lewis R. Morris that his wife had died after an abortion by Dr. Thacker...
...This was to their advantage last week when they played the New York Rangers in the finals for the Stanley Cup. The last three of the five-game series were scheduled for Toronto. The Maple Leafs started by winning the first game, 6 to 4, in New York, when Roach, the Rangers' goalie, was off his game; the second, 6 to 2, in Boston, when the Rangers tried to improve a two-goal lead instead of guarding...
...regrets it, in time to persuade him to risk a reformation. Produced by a small company with an inexpensive cast, cheap sets and a trick story, the film is fair entertainment and should be even fairer as an investment for its makers. Good shot: a fat person (Bert Roach) softly crying "Help!" as he tries, with two straws, to extricate a cherry from a drink...
...Birmingham, Ala., Epheus and Mary Thomas named their daughter Laxative. Other names given to Negro children, as revealed by 'the Bureau of Vital Statistics: Rosy & Posy (twins), Arcola, Miserable, Roach, Zenobia, Poindexter, Diplomj, Nebuchadnezzar, Mumps, Cleopatra, Love Lycurgus, Measles, Cleop, Island, Moraphine, Shylock, Phemia Initia, Shinola, Truthie, Listerine, Providentia, Etoy, Zeller, Delphine-Richlene, Arcadia, Zebedee, Charity, Orestee-Lennion, Ishman-Julius, Friendly James, Pearlean, Amorous, Dimples, Violin, Mystic Kate, Ivory White, Ivory Shivers...