Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strip of northwest Indian territory lying against the border of Afghanistan. Its fierce tribes have never submitted to British rule. There last week, as they have been doing for two years, grousing British Army officers and sweating troops scrambled over unfriendly mountains on the trail of an elusive, red-bearded, turbaned firebrand, Mirza Ali Khan, the Fakir...
...Soon, however, two other former Denishawn dancers, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, joined the procession. When famed German Modernist Dancer Mary Wigman visited the U. S. in 1930-31, the U. S. home-grown modernist dance had already taken root. But Wigman's U. S. tours added a trail of disciples to "the modernist ranks. Chief among these was blonde, muscular Hanya Holm...
Evidence which does not appear clearly in the picture convinced Dr. Anderson that at the end of its trail the particle disintegrated by the emission of a positive electron...
...another page in the same magazine, Screenwriter Gene Fowler, addressed to Dudley Nichols, President of the Guild, his apologies for ever having joined Screen Playwrights: "As . . . an erratic old gentleman who wishes to die in the odor of sanctity, permit me to hit the sawdust trail. Just to indicate how faulty is my scheme of reference in general, may I point out that some 15 years ago I resided in a charming hotel at the head of the Spanish Steps in Rome and did not know for two weeks that it was a brothel. A man such as that...
...roads lead to Rome, and all final examination and course grades lead the students hot on their trail to University Hall. But that ground is hallowed now, and no sleuth may legally apprehend his prey thereon...