Word: training
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Riots Continue. Although more than 400 of the student rioters were arrested when they returned by train to Bucharest and Jassy, last week, dispatches continued to report sporadic outbursts against Jews. At Jassy itself the police were not able to restrain friends of the imprisoned students who "demonstrated" by invading a synagog, while the congregation was at prayer and thrashing 30 Jews & Jewesses. When at Bucharest the arrested students were searched, their pockets were found crammed with loot, and around the waists of many young women students were discovered up to half a dozen pairs of silk stockings which they...
...crush great champions. In 1897 he made the final botch that removed him from serious consideration in the ring. Matched against one Tommy Tracy in St. Louis, he escaped to a saloon. Hours afterward his backers found him; shoved him into a buggy; raced for the arena. A train hit the buggy, killing two. Griffo stumbled into the ring drunk, dazed. The bell rang. Griffo, fumbling a towel, swayed to the centre of the ring, bent down to spread the towel. Tracy, ignorant of the rules of the handkerchief trick, hit him a shattering blow behind the ear. Griffo...
...brief, "The Ghost Train" is a sad, sad, business, a mystery show in which every customary spooky manifestation is trotted on, from the waving of mysterious crimson lamps outside the windows to the usual unexplained noises made by a stagehand hitting a cracker box with a bungstarter in the hope of representing, we suppose, a spectral game of craps...
...rascally smugglers. He might be able to do a Pygmalion with the coat check girl if he could teach her cockney, and there is a scene in Mr. Pinero's "Magistrate" where the waiter would fit in nicely but it's all very quaint in "The Ghost Train...
Copley -- "The Ghost Train," 8.20 o'clock. With a forty weeks run last year. To be reviewed...