Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this same monarch is called upon to speak to his pugilistic parliament, his crafty prime minister starts a phonograph going beneath the royal robes. This is quite impressive until the minister in his vehemence breaks the record and the needle keeps repeating in the same rut. And when the august assembly convenes to determine Gulliver's fate, a free-for-all is precipitated by the munitions-makers' insisting that Gulliver be violently destroyed and the food magnates insisting that he be kept alive and forced...
...appetite for preposterous endurance might take an even more eccentric form: the Roller Derby. In Chicago 25 young men & women were roller-skating in circles around the Coliseum. They had been doing so since Christmas Day. It was the fourth Roller Derby held in the U. S. since last August. Crowds averaged...
...West Coast. Leo ("Bromo") Seltzer, 32, worked for Universal Pictures Corp., until five years ago when he staged the first commercial Walkathon in Denver. He promoted 22 more, grossed $2,000,000, retired because he felt that Walkathons were becoming vulgar. He inaugurated the Roller Derby in Chicago last August, held two more in Louisville and Kansas City. Roller Derby teams are selected from the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association, formed by Promoter Seltzer last year to help popularize his new pastime. On 1,600 rinks, the 3.000 members of T. R. D. A. pay $2 each, compete for invitations. Seventy...
...early Harvard customs, previously unknown and first revealed by this "buttery" ledger, was a "quarter dinner" held in the college four times a year down to 1765. The college butler prepared these meals. For one meal, in August, 1729, according to the "buttery" entry, the butler purchased milk, eggs, sugar, flour, nutmeg, "legg" of mutton, pork, squash, butter, pigcons, bread, apple pie, and wine. This meal cost 1 pound, 8 shillings, 7 pence, or about...
...youngest men in U. S. Army history to win a colonelcy. Awarded many a medal, he served at the Peace Conference, quit the Army in 1920 to work for Nordyke & Marmon Co. Joining Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1925, he became president in 1929, resigned last August...