Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recalled his first trip to Warm Springs in the autumn of 1924. As there were no doctors in attendance at the obscure Georgia resort in those days, he had to figure out his own aquatic exercises. Gradually the word began to pass around, and there was great excitement when one day two paralytics were carried off the train. Mr. Roosevelt reported that he "undertook to become doctor and physiotherapist...
Along with Charles Sheeler's Shaker Buildings, Georgia O'Keeffe's This Autumn, Thomas Benton's Over the Hill, Leon Kroll's Road Through Willows, Edward Hopper's East Wind Over Weehawken, Henry Billings' Martha's Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...
Sing Sing's football team, whose star back, Alabama Pitts, may get a job with the Giants next autumn, is also a Mara sideline. At the end of the 1932 season, Mara presented Warden Lawes with a set of old Giant uniforms, suggested starting a prison team. The Sing Sing Black Sheep, coached by Giant players, have made $10,000 a year for the prison...
Walsh's dynamic personality was one of the outstanding features of the Harvard coaching corps this past autumn. He developed a strong rush line from material that, at the start of the season was acknowledged to be green and unseasoned. His work and proved ability, coupled with the desires of the men who played under him to a trial of at least a year. If the experiment is not a success, it will then be time for Harvard to weigh the advantages of a clean sweep at Soldiers Field...
Professor Raymond Moley returned this autumn from a two-hour conversation with General Plutarco Elias Calles, Chief of the National Revolution and "Mussolini of Mexico." In Today, considered President Roosevelt's mouthpiece by Mexicans, Professor Moley wrote: "It may be taken for granted that Calles will dominate affairs for years to come. . . . After generations of misrule, exploitation and revolution, the federation of 28 Mexican states is on the way toward recovery...