Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover has just been assassinated ! Vice President Curtis is mortally wounded!" So cried a voice to the Paterson, N. J., radio audience. Frantic telephone calls for confirmation of this News were made to National Broadcasting Co.'s Station WJZ. Last week the company started a search for the amateur radio-news-faker who used the WJZ wave length and call letters to broadcast such gruesome "humor...
...Sardinias, a young Cuban-born Negro with big round eyes, long arms, an antlike waist and the inadequate nickname of Kid Chocolate. Kid Licorice would suit him better. When he entered the U. S. a few months ago, he had no fame, although in Havana he had won 100 amateur bouts and knocked out 46 of his spidery opponents. In Manhattan his first professional rewards were coffee and frijoles given to him by informal fighting clubs in out of the way places. Now he has more silk shirts than he can count, and his suits of clothes are said...
...prices of second hand text books never fail to produce a paradox in the mind of the average amateur trader. Somehow when he comes to sell his books in the Spring the return seems to bear little relation to the remarkable outlay required of him in September. The reason of course is clear enough, the cost of handling and storage are so great that in order to make a fair profit the dealers in such literature have to pocket about twenty percent of the list price...
...Oregon '31, and state amateur champion was the originator of the plan to promote intercollegiate golf through the interest aroused by such an experiment as playing a golf match by telegraph. His idea is for Harvard to chose a course which corresponds as nearly as possible to the features of the Eugene. Oregon, Country Club. The Eugene Course measures 6425 yards long, is par 72, has very few bunkers, and has its second nine laid out through trees. By chance the Belmont Springs Course, where the Harvard team plays regularly is greatly similar to this, with the exception that...
...little theatres of the land are dens of morbidity and exoticism. This fact is always made apparent at Manhattan's annual Little Theatre Tournament. The seventh contest, held last week, was cut to the conventional pattern. Twenty amateur organizations competed, each presenting a one-act play. One group from Denver gave a horrific vignette by Eugene O'Neill in which a white couple and a Negro are shown adrift on a raft in tropic seas. Another Denver company chose for its dramatic locale a rainswept bit of Maine seacoast where the incessant downpour drove a bedraggled housewife insane...