Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When National Hockey League governors sanctioned a benefit game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and an all-star team, to aid Toronto's Irvin ("Ace") Bailey, there was a question of whether Boston's Eddie Shore would be allowed to play. One of Shore's characteristically furious charges had caused the accident that gave Bailey a fractured skull, put him out of hockey for life (TIME...
...points this season. Rocky Mountain. Even in this single league basketball styles vary. The western division (Utah and Montana) plays a slambang, helter-skelter game resulting in high scores. The eastern (Colorado, Wyoming) tends toward conservatism and tight defense. W'yoming leads the league undefeated. Wyoming's ace is a tall, blond, left-handed forward named Les Witte, brother of Coach Willard ("Dutch") Witte. In a double-header last week against Colorado College he scored 17 points in each game, brought his season total to 113, his four-year total close to 1,000. Pacific Coast. California...
...Good Dame" tells the story of a young crook in the carnival business who takes money from unsuspecting fools in the game of Ace, King, Queen. His name is Mace, and he falls in love with a girl who has been filched of all her money by his partner in crime. The girl is Sylvia Sidney, and you are mistaken, she does not weep, and pity herself for twenty minutes. I have been wary in the past of placing any superlatives on Miss Sideny's ability, but she shows in "Good Dame" that she is as capable an actress...
...almost landed the job, too," crowed Mrs. Whittemore, wife of a Puerto Rican Federal Land Bank director. "Made a great play for it, and all the time I had an ace in the hole. Yeah. What I really wanted, you see, was this collectorship. It's among the three or four best collectorships there are. Pays $6,500 a year. You have a boat...
...Governor Winship, but she was going to give him "a look-over,'' was sure that they would "get along." "That's me all the time. I'm the little girl who made good. Always got an ace in the hole. And maybe the next time I come here after the governorship I'll have my aces back to back...