Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morrow was reading the story of Hippoclides (chapter CXXVI through CXXIX) which describes the contest Clisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, held to choose a husband for his daughter Agarista. After a year of trial, he preferred young Hippoclides of Athens, but on the evening of the choice, Hippoclides drank wine, danced upside down on a table, disgusted Clisthenes who cried: ''You have danced away your wife!" "Hippoclides cares not," said Hippoclides...
...Rathbone act it as well as you can conceive of its being acted. But somehow its balance and unity have been altered. Faithful to its original, The Lady of Scandal is fair entertainment, but it never becomes a moving picture. Dénouement-Miss Chatterton, forced to live on trial for six months in the house of her prospective in-laws, falling in love with her fiance's cousin...
...Weetamoe and Enterprise kept over toward the Long Island 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...
Until August the "J" boats will race like this again and again. These trial races are useful for tuning up the rigging, getting the crews spry and smart, are important as indications of form, but meaningless so far as the America's Cup races are concerned. In August at Newport the elimination races will be held and one boat chosen to sail for the U. S. against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V. Each yacht costs about $200,000 to build, $150,000 to equip, $200,000 to run for a summer. Already Enterprise has five suits...
...June 13?Trial race of U. S. America's Cup defenders; at Glen Cove, L. I. Probable starters: Enterprise, Resolute, Vanitie, Weetamoe, Whirlwind, Yankee...