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...panting retreaters threw away their rifles, coats, hats, canteens, valuable extra pairs of officers' high boots, to run the faster. In the utter Chinese rout General Ma, who had begun the day by promising " I will fight so long as one Chinese stands by my side!" ended it safely some 30 miles ahead of the main retreat. For the rest of the week he skulked north of the walled City of Tsitsihar which Japanese took as their prize...
...given her major roles which often seem to be bit parts arduously expanded. In Min & Bill, she was proprietress of a low-grade boarding house. Wallace Beery was her star boarder. Largely slapstick comedy, the picture included a six-minute fight between Dressier and Beery in which Cinemactress Dressier threw things, among them a pottie, at Cinemactor Beery. Cinemactress Dressier enjoyed making the fight scenes. When she and Beery were too tired to go on, she rested in a portable bungalow dressing room which she got for Christmas from Marion Davies...
Booth made his football reputation in the Yale-Army game of 1929. Wood made his in the Harvard-Army game a week earlier. The passes he threw at the end of that game made the score Harvard 19, Army 20. His drop kick tied the score. Michigan's Fielding Yost, onetime coach of Benny Friedman, called Wood that year the greatest passer he had ever seen. Since then Wood has often 'justified the compliment. A mediocre runner, at times an uninspired field-general, Harvard's captain has taken longer than it took Booth to achieve the status...
...biography is extraordinarily well rounded and refreshing, refurbishing every facet of a well dusted personality. Where others worship, Fay sits in admiration. Where some debunk, he is content to admit the frailty of man. "This man, who is not conspicuous because he possessed a just sense of proportion, threw in his lot with that of his country. His glory is the patrimony of civilization. Others are born eloquent; he was born legendary...
Wood kicked to Lassiter on the five yard Yale line. The sophomore Eli halfback threw a nifty pass to Wilbur, who was downed by Crickard for a 20-yard gain. On the second down Lassiter was nailed by sherry for no gain. On next play with seven yards to go, Crowley was thrown for seven yards. Parker kicked from his own 45-yard line to the Harvard 10-yard marker, Crickard running the ball back to his own 23-yard line...