Word: swung
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...entries seemed to be Stephen Sanford's Mount Etna and Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson's Alligator, winner of many jumping races, including the Meadow Brook, Rose Tree challenge and the Maryland Hunt Cup. Round Peytona Brook and over five fences the bobbing horses-17 of them- swung in a half-circle, and down the straightaway past the enclosure. The course was wet and the horses ran warily, in the heavy manner of jumpers, and slowly, for the finish in front of the club enclosure was four and a half miles away around the serpentine folds of the course...
From Columbus the piece journeyed to Cleveland, to Pittsburgh, to Washington where it again swung into the Western circuit under playdoctors' orders. Meanwhile it was receiving either awed accolades because Actress Barrymore was in it, or courteous, unimpressed reviews. It was clear that it was not yet fit for the big time and Actress Barrymore repeatedly refused to have her picture taken in blackface. This was probably due to the fact that she was fussing with her makeup, making it lighter and lighter, going from minstrel-show black to high brown. Also, the dialog was being freed from much...
...over, jarring -the champion's jaw. The punch was not particularly hard, but it flustered Singer. He stepped back to get his bearings, then launched the flurry of punches any fighter turns loose when he has been hurt, to show that he has not been hurt. Canzoneri ducked, swung a right and then a short, lightning-fast left hook that landed on the point of Singer's jaw. The champion went down on. his face and the people who had laid 3 to i knew their money was gone : when a fighter falls on his face he seldom...
...Ball Cabinet on the south lawn of the White House, but he must have felt as though the heavy medicine ball had gotten inside his breast and lodged where his heart ought to be. Just two years after his arrival at the pinnacle of his career, the country had swung widely out from behind him. He had sat up until 11:25 on election night, watching the swing take place as the returns came in. Now, the morning after, the nightmarish news was not only confirmed but colored darker. Seat after seat of the Republican majorities in Congress were being...
...Gloucester harbor toward the triangular 36-mi. course swung the two big fishing schooners. Thebaud was ballasted down by the head and rolled like a destroyer. High rode the Bluenose, her forefoot lifting out until it showed her red underbody...