Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tell No Tales (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A fine Negro wake and a good bit by Gene Lockhart as a gambler, stuck in a stale story about a crusading editor (Melvyn Douglas) who confounds the underworld...
...Cornell sight pulled ahead slowly with their most comparatively free of water. The failure of the Crimson to respond in the storm with a lower stroke was partially responsible for the almost immediate falling back of the Harvard boat to third place. Penn was already far in the wake. The crews reached the finish with the Big Red a length in the lead and Harvard and Syracuse second in a dead heat. The Quaker and the Cornell shells immediately started to sink while the foundering oarsmen made for the launches. By constant bailing, the Syracuse and Crimson eights managed...
Rough water from the wake of several pleasure boats made rowing difficult at first, and Jack Wilson found it hard to settle the stroke down to the usual 32, but once he was able to the crew responded beautifully and spaced out well...
Earlier in the morning, the third Varsity boat, stroked by Barr Comstock, earned a leg on the Stewards Cup by leaving the Union Boat Club nearly three lengths in the wake. And with an ample length of open water, the second 150 boat easily led the Pennsylvania crew in a four boat race...
Bert Haines's prize package 150 pounders lived up to all hopes last Saturday as the first boat nosed out the Eli lightweight crew by a third of a length on Lake Carnegie to take the Goldthwait Cup. The Princeton crew was left three lengths in the wake...