Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...useless bridle path along McCormick Boulevard ("From Nowhere to Nowhere") which should have cost less than $300,000. It set up dummy concerns to buy and sell building materials at outrageous prices. With his indictment quashed, Engineer Kelly was technically outside this Chicago scandal. But its shadow was enough to bar him from serious consideration as a candidate for high elective office. In 1931 "Tony" Cermak was overwhelmingly nominated for Mayor. At Cermak's death old Boss Pat Nash who succeeded him as Democratic National Committeeman wanted to be Mayor. Young, aggressive State's Attorney Thomas Courtney backed...
...second heat Mary Reynolds confidently got away in the lead. At the first turn, trotting in the clear by a length, she suddenly saw the shadow of the rail across the inside of the track. When she broke nervously into a gallop and was taken to the outside, the leaders rushed past her. Driver Ben White got her back into stride, then set out after the, field, caught it on the second stretch. Tired by a blistering quarter-mile after her break, Mary Reynolds led Brown Berry to the last turn, when a third horse, Hollyrood Portia, left the ruck...
...most frequent and familiar cry heard in the Johnson office in the Department of Commerce building is "Robbie!" At the General's loud call up steps a small, pert young woman of 27 named Frances Robinson. She is his secretary and shadow. She runs his tumultuous office. She flies with him on his missions about the country. She hovers over him at all press conferences. She is a NRA power...
Though it contains nothing so elaborate as the Gold Diggers' shadow waltz, and no songs likely to prove as catchy as those in Forty-Second Street, Moonlight and Pretzels has a little more authentic Broadway flavor than either. This and another advantage-that it cost Monte Brice and William Rowland, who produced it for Universal, only about $150,000-are probably due to the fact that it was manufactured not in Hollywood, but at Paramount's former (L. I.) studio which has been unused for two years...
...spectators cheered and munched hot dogs as cowboys herded the ponies into a pen. Then, while the crowd closed in to pick favorites, came the branding. Thrifty natives have put their brands on most of the ponies, take care to get them on the new colts which shadow their mothers. When auction time came, bidding was the best in years. The ponies bring $20 to $70 each, make good children's pets...