Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vital secondary themes of the novel, the marriage of Levin (Gyles Isham) and Kitty (Maureen O'Sullivan), the complex affairs of Anna's brother Stiva (Reginald Owen) and his wife (Phoebe Foster). Far more important, however, is what Producer David Selznick and Director Clarence Brown contrived to stretch the limitations of their medium to include: the strong essential melodrama of Anna Karenina's career and the savage, cold and fantastically elaborate background against which her doom is outlined...
...After the Mash the yapping of bookmakers that kept Saratoga's sparrows awake was mostly about Red Rain. Left at the post and running a miserable last, eight lengths behind the field at the half-mile post, he had suddenly come to life running into the stretch, passed all eight horses within the last three furlongs, won the race by two lengths, cost bookmakers an estimated...
...holder of the world's record for 1-1/16 mile, and because the Butler racetrack has sharp turns that King Saxon likes. For nearly a mile, as the crowd expected, King Saxon made the pace. Discovery, running under 132 Ib., caught him as he tired in the stretch, went on to pass Top Row and Only One, won by a comfortable length and a half, at odds of 9-to-10. The prize, $11,675, brought his total winnings...
...home stretch a jockey has nothing to lose by whipping a tired horse. But the horse in this case was rather flabbergasted at how much ground its jockey expected it to cover in how little time. As the House delegation emerged with their instructions, newshawks crowded around to ask what was now on the President's "must" list. Said a member of the delegation: "You sit down and write out a list and I'll tell you if there's anything you have left...
...slow third quarter saw Venzke trailing and by the time the gun rang out for the last lap it looked as if the long office hours in a Manhattan accounting firm were going to put Bonthron out of the race. Then things began to happen. Sailing down the home stretch with his mincing gait, Jack Lovelock stepped a full eight yards out in front of Cunningham, whose stocky figure suddenly went dead beat. Thereupon, "Bonny" Bonthron began pumping his hairy legs like pistons, passed Cunningham too. But by that time Lovelock had crossed the tape. Time...