Word: ater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ater playing in St. Louis before 9,662 people, the Scottish booters moved on to New York for the second of seven scheduled stops. Chief purpose of the tour: to try once again to whip up enthusiasm for soccer in the U.S., where the game's most rabid admirers* are in such places as St. Louis, Kearny, N.J. and Fall River, Mass. One reason why soccer may never take the U.S. by storm: the peak of the season comes during the winter months when fans prefer to be indoors and more comfortable watching basketball...
...puttering around in the darkroom of a photographic studio, he learned the art of trick photography so well that in ater years he was able to produce better snowstorm photos than his rivals, simply by splattering ink on his negatives. He also did early composites, during a macabre era in which people liked to be photographed with shadowy pictures of their deceased spouses showing in the background. He tried to make money printing photographs on satin pillowcases (a fad of the times), went $1,500 in debt with his own studio, then joined...
...almost impossible to believe that Peroy won his first fencing prize in 1896. Short, with sparkling eyes, a greying military mustache, slight French accent and a barrel chest, he resembles nothing so much as a bamtam cock. Nearly every day, shortly ater luncheon, he pulls on his huge gloves, tips his mask over his face and begins to fence, not stopping till five o'clock or later...
...four years, during World War I, Texan Knott lambasted Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Franz Josef. His savage drawings were reprinted all over the U. S., ater were published in a book. The war over, Cartoonist Knott grew genial again, adopted a lanky, mustachioed character, 'Old Man Texas," based on a real Texan, he late James A. ("Uncle Jimmy") Boyd. Death came to Old Man Texas one day a year ago. Four days later, John Knott's ellow artist, Adolf Hitler, sent his troops torming into Poland. Last week Artist Knott, busy again at 61 lambasting the new overlord...