Word: annuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usually the annual cricket match between Eton and Harrow, Britain's two most exclusive "public" schools where many a future Empire builder gets his early training, is a well-mannered, ultra-polite social function. There old grads, most of them carrying umbrellas, wearing cutaways and top hats and accompanied by their wives dressed in ankle-length garden-party frocks, are brought together by the force of the old school tie. U. S. spectators, used to rowdy football games, are always amazed at the polite applause, rather than raucous cheering, that greets the players; at the number of high-collared...
Addressing a session of the annual Congress of German Art last week at Munich, Bavarian Minister of Interior Adolf Wagner welcomed the artists present, assured them that if the present world knew anything about contemporary German art, it would be recognized as indispensable...
Last week, however, when the sun had set on the seventh annual All-Star game between the American League and the National League, baseball writers were ready to agree that their boy wonder, now 20, was all they had predicted. Chosen as one of the 25 players to represent the American League in the sport's mid-season classic, young Feller, suddenly waved into the game in the middle of the sixth inning to replace Tiger Tommy Bridges, found himself in a tough spot. The score was 3-to-1. The National Leaguers had the bases loaded-and only...
...22nd annual P.G.A. championship tournament, held last week at the Pomonok Country Club, almost within a trylon's length of the New York World's Fair, will long be remembered for: 1) the noisiest squabble in the history of the Professional Golfers Association; 2) the most exciting final waged between two bread-&-butter putters...
Except that it was held amidst the distracting beauties of San Francisco, last week's 77th annual meeting of the National Education Association was a typical coldwater convention. Thanks to the delights of Treasure Island, the incidental joys of cable-cars, Chinatown and the city's justly-famed cool weather, few delegates even bothered to attend the meetings-though smart pressagentry managed to fill the Opera House for one series of dull speeches. As usual, the convention delivered itself of some earnest "Whereas-es" and "Be-it-resolveds"; this time they were in favor of democracy...