Search Details

Word: 36th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...looked as though slim Tom Creavy, last year's winner, would play Olin Dutra for the title but Creavy, when he had squared his semi-final match with Frank Walsh of Chicago on the 36th, after being 9 down in the morning round, missed an important five-foot putt on the 38th. Dutra, who had coasted through the tournament, played Walsh in the finals. In California, where he and his brother learned to play on an improvised course between two trees in a meadow, Dutra is known for his steadiness, his diligence on practice tees. His short swing is especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...Eugenia Polites Siaperas, 23, had been married 16 hours when, from a honeymoon suite on the 36th floor of the Morrison Hotel, she flung herself screaming out the window. Her husband. Peter Siaperas, 34, a confectioner, told police he had accused his wife of premarital unchastity. He said she had admitted the truth, become hysterical, thrown her engagement and wedding rings into a trunk and jumped. The police released Confectioner Siaperas, but the inquest went on. The bride's honor in question, her family invoked church law, called three doctors. Meanwhile, Dr. Peter N. Hatzis examined the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Greek Tragedy | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

Last week's running of the Boston Marathon-26 mi. over New England hills from Tebeau's Farm at Hopkinton, Mass., to the clubhouse of the Boston Athletic Association-was the 36th. It was the 14th for 44-year-old Clarence De Mar, a school-teacher of Keene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boston Marathon | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...Banker Morgan resides on Madison Avenue in the block bounded by Park Avenue, 36th & 37th Streets. In addition to the Morgan home, library and museum the block is occupied by: Brother-in-Law Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Socialites Lyman J. Delano and Edwin Wright Sheldon, Drs. Edwin A. Spies and Israel Fleiss, the new Union League Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

John Nance Garner had two anniversaries last week-his 62nd birthday and his 36th wedding. He observed both by going to his office before 8 a. m., working until supper time. Since his birth into a poor family on a lonely farm in the Red River County of North Texas, "Jack" Garner has come far but changed little. He is, as he likes to repeat, a man of the common people. As a youngster, he was puny. He got little or no formal education. A touch of tuberculosis sent him down to the hilly ranges of South Texas where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Garner's House | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Next