Word: featness
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...hunger artists" melted away?all but one. He, persistent and nimble of thought, demanded a license "merely to eat in public"?to eat a whole 300-pound pig within ten days. Not to be thus circumvented, the officials ruled that "eating, in this sense, constitutes a feat of endurance...
...herself the sterling artist she is. This began with the Grand Aria from "Dinorah" in which the demented heroine chases her shadow vocally and competes with a flute. Miss Hempel easily won the competition. The chromatic octave which she ascended and descended twice in one breath was a noteworthy feat. The pathetic "Schwesterlein" of Brahms, the rollicking humour of the "Lauterbach," and the uplifting serenity of the Joyous Easter Hymn brought the evening to its climax. Needless to say Miss Hempel was applauded to the echo...
Just such a feat was brought off last week by an employe of the Pond's Extract Co. The Chicago Tribune published a full page in the current Pond's Extract series of testimonial-persuasions, the central figure of which was attractive young Miss Elinor Patterson, daughter of Major Joseph Medill Patterson, the Tribune's owner and publisher. In no uncertain words the Tribune's 1,020,427* readers were let into the secret of how Miss Patterson's "lovely skin with its rare petal texture, its flush of unfolding youth, its transparent delicacy" is kept "imperishable" in spite...
...Significance. As an intellectual feat, the book has few peers. As human literature it contains too much stark psychology to be immortal, though consummate art has converted a mountain of material into a story taut as a humming wire, though the spiritual current conducted has terrific voltage
...followed Gibson of Holy Cross. Had Watters been able to place, he would have beaten the three invaders from Europe and Canada, who finished next in order. Hoff the versatile Norwegian, got third place followed by Paulin, the Netherlands representative and Christle of the University of Toronto Paulin's feat in getting fourth place 12 hours after stepping ashore from an ocean liner, aroused much favorable comment. He will be a serious threat to the leaders at the B. A. A. games Saturday night in the Boston Arena...