Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Puppets (Milton Sills). It looks as though the wounds of war would never heal for the movies-now that The Big Parade has made so much money. There is a shell hole scene in this one, too. Somehow no one has recaptured the ferocity and the coarse laughter of the fighting as well as did The Big Parade. The war stuff in Puppets is particularly weak. The rest of the picture is about an Italian master of marionettes who leaves Manhattan to fight. His wife attempts to carry on his sideshow. None of it exacts breathless attention...
Both the Yale and the Harvard first boats went over the four mile route last Saturday in the last time trials before the race. Coach Leader's Blue eight negotiated the distance just three seconds faster than did the Crimson shell. Three seconds difference in times means less than one boat length in distance, and if the time trials can be taken as any indication as to what the crews can do in a race, there should be no open water between the shells at the finish Friday...
...place of rowing this afternoon, the Crimson oarsmen were sent for a five-mile walk by Coach Haines. As yet the University shell has not been put through a time trial, although it is possible that Captain Winthrop's men will be put through their paces for time tomorrow if the weather improves. This afternoon brought the worst weather conditions with which the eights have had to contend. No changes have been made in any of the boats with the exception of the 'shift occasioned by Watts' blistered hand...
...second crew was handicapped in its trial, as Russell, number 2, has strained a muscle in his back and will be unable to row for a week. Callender, who has been at 4 in the combination crew, is now at 2 in the Second university shell, with Satterthwaite, a former member of the third crew who has been summoned from New Haven, replacing Callender...
Bunce, who was displaced at No. 5 in the junior boat by Clark when Peterson went back to his place in the first shell, is now rowing at No. 5 in the combination crew in place of Davies...