Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simple, clear-thinking Joe Lyons, who was endowed with all the homely virtues, left a record of accomplishment that might have been envied by what many Australians considered more brilliant predecessors. "Honest Joe" abandoned teaching school for a political career at the age of 30; energy and courage made him a Labor Premier in ultraconservative, mountainous Tasmania, smallest and loveliest of the Australian States...
...Francisco, Australian-born Longshoreman Alfred ("Harry") Renton Bridges, West Coast C. I. O. leader, for the third time filed his intention of becoming a U. S. citizen ("first papers"). Absentminded, he forgot to get his final papers by 1928 and again 1935, or he would be in no danger of deportation...
...musical novel called Maurice Guest opened (pianissimo) Henry Handel Richardson's career in 1908. Richardson's next book, The Getting of Wisdom (1910), struck a chord that made listeners sit up: how did this man get to know so many intimacies of life in an Australian girls' college? When, in 1929, the same author's Ultima Thule packed them in to standing room, the audience insisted on the virtuoso's taking a bow. To their surprise, the bow turned out to be a curtsy...
...team of Australian debaters who declared that there had been no good tea in America since the Boston Tea Party, defended the affirmative of the subject, "Resolved: That the British Empire must disintegrate," against a Debating Council team composed of Henry D. Oyen '41 and James J. Pattee '41 in the Adams House Common Room Saturday night...
...Australian debating team which was to debate in Eliot House this evening has been unavoidably detained and the scheduled event has been postponed indefinitely...