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...shore where the tide was beginning to ebb and help them along. The race was between them, but Vanitie decided it. Gerard Lambert, at Vanitie's wheel, is a member of the Weetamoe syndicate. Vanitie is Weetamoe's trial horse. So whenever he could in the long thrash on the wind, Lambert slipped up and took Enterprise's wind, letting Weetamoe slip ahead...
...from Avalon, his estate at Princeton, N. J., last week sallied Dr. Henry van Dyke, 77, Presbyterian, verbally to thrash Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 58, Methodist, for Dr. Wilson's insults to Dr. van Dyke's father, the late famed Dr. Henry Jackson van Dyke of Brooklyn. Dr. Wilson, general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, had written a report, kept secret until dragged forth by the Senate Lobby Committee, on the Board's war against the "foes" of Prohibition before the 1928 presidential elections. Dr. van Dyke was perplexed to find himself...
...York, "Serena Blandish", in which Ruth Gordon, A. E. Matthews and Constance Collier depict the languid game of love in Mayfair, seen by a singularly innocent young wanton. "Man's Estate" most recent of the Theatre Guild offerings, gives Margalo Gillmore and Earl Larimore a chance to thrash out the eternal question of a young man choosing between marriage and his life work...
...Savidge. As the Extraordinary Tribunal retired to thrash out a verdict on the conduct of the police and to draft a formal report to Parliament, one quaint bit of testimony was recalled as deeply and philosophically significant...
Grimy pressmen will look up from their work in printing plants across the country in these next three months to see a neatly dressed stranger peering at them. If they can hear his comments above the thrash & roar of pressroom operation, they will be conscious of a precise English accent...