Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard breastroke: Won by A. Waldron (H); second J. Halliday (S); third, G. Murphy (S) No time taken because Kraus (H) finished first but was disqualified for illegal turn...
...rest of the meet was decidedly one-sided. Crimson swimmers swept the firsts and seconds in four other events and won both relays decisively. Max Kraus and Jack Waldron finished one-two in the 220 breastroke but Max was disqualified for an illegal turn--touching the wall with one hand only, so Waldron was declared the actual winner. Kraus's unofficial time was 2:40, while Waldron was three secords slower...
THIS volume should attract attention if only for the reason that it contains the largest number of sonnets ever published under one cover. Records and superlatives of quantity could be applied to at endless length by anyone with a statistical turn of mind, and it is incontestably the major poetic and publishing tour de force of the year. But the reader should not confine his emotions to the sort which come from a first glimpse of the Empire State Building or the Queen Mary for in this titanic mass of reading matter there is a definite quality...
...obvious that this is an excellent picture. Although it is no epoch-making production, Jean Renoir's slightly idealistic picture is certainly different from the movies produced in our Hollywood. On the average audience this differences has a great shock-effect, and it is this effect that is in turn misinterpreted as the stamp of a superior film...
...were a quorum of Hollywood actresses, cinema celebrities like Darryl Zanuck, Jack Warner, Cecil B. DeMille, who had paid $1,000 each for "lifetime" cover charges, permission to sit in an "inner circle." Chunks of scenery fell down, the show was an hour late, the revolving stages failed to turn properly, microphones went dead, a disappearing platform jerked the prima donna out of sight during one of her songs, and a waiter dropped a trayful of dishes during a dance spectacle. Hollywood pronounced the opening a success...