Word: starters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans and the Derby to Louisville, the 500-mile classic is to a city which once rivaled Detroit as an automobile manufacturing centre. Last week a crowd of 135,000 was sitting in the unroofed stands when the 33 cars, after gathering speed for a lap, rolled past the starter in groups of three. Around the 2½-mile brick oval with an unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey of Detroit ran his Scott Special...
...Navy" who conducted periodical raids on the Red Eagle Hotel, Nazi headquarters in Hamburg, during 1932 and 1933. A summary court sentenced eight of them to death, 33 up to 15 years in jail, six to three years. Somehow one of the defendants managed to get himself acquitted. Likely starter for the People's Court will be a new public trial for the murderers of Horst Wessel. Everyone knows that the "Horst Wessel Lied" is Nazi Germany's unofficial anthem and greatest marching song.* Horst Wessel was also a man, an insignificant song writer and storm trooper, carefully...
Occasionally he offers wholesale wagers in the wrong company. At his Beach Club in 1923 he offered anyone 5-to-1 that a sure starter in the Derby, three months away, could not be named. Up spoke Harry Sinclair and Joshua S. Cosden, asking for $5,000 worth apiece. Both had Derby eligibles, and although their horses had run last in the Preakness week before the Derby, both delightedly posted the $500 entry fee to send them to the barrier. Mr. Sinclair's Zev came in No. 1, Mr. Cosden's Martingale...
...unknowns recruited from Hollywood, Broadway and radio by Leonard Sillman who persuaded Elsie Janis and Charles Dillingham to come out of semi-retirement to back his production. Sillman appears in it as a radio impresario teaching a claque how to laugh at bad jokes; as a romantic Negro taxi-starter who fancies himself as Emperor Jones; as a puppet who escapes from his strings and collapses with Pagliacci grimacings. New Faces lacks pace and polish, contains enough wit to make it good entertainment of its type...
...over (8-6. 6-3, 6-2), Vines refrained from claiming the legitimate alibi that he had had less than a week's practice indoors. Said he: "Yeah, he fixed me tonight. But maybe I'll nick him for a set down at Philadelphia for a starter." Nick him, Vines did in Philadelphia- for just one set. Staying on the base line most of the time Vines showed better than in Manhattan, ran the match to four sets. 6-4, 8-10, 9-7, 6-3. Next night in Washington Vines found himself, crowded the net continually, trounced...