Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light after the discovery of Detroit's "twin" red-haired Pauline Taylors (TIME, March 1) were Brunette Elizabeth ("Betsy") Anderson, 17, and Elizabeth ("Betty") Anderson, 17. Born the same day, both weigh the same, went to school together, stand the same height, swim, ride horseback, play tennis and badminton. Rated the same I. Q., they are unrelated. Betsy plans to write, Betty to paint...
Most valuable hired men in Boston are apparently Mahlon E. Traylor, who was paid $216,505 by Massachusetts Distributors. Inc., sales agency for stock in Massachusetts Investors Trust, and Francis Albert Countway, a retiring bachelor with a fondness for badminton, whose knowledge of the soap business was worth $286,995 to Lever Bros...
Mary Lou Petty of Seattle, blonde, stocky, 21-year-old protegee of the Washington Athletic Club's famed Coach Ray Daughters, who makes her swim an hour a day, allows her to train on baked potatoes and badminton, last week beat Champion Lenore Right Wingard in two free-style events, set a new U. S. record...
...football players in the summer. I can see no better way of keeping them trim than by playing badminton," Purcell stated. "It is one of the most perfect conditioners available for wind and for legs. I know many professional football and hockey stars who play constantly to Keep in condition...
Purcell would invite to a game those who scoff at badminton as a "non" sport. "I could have them flat on their backs and gasping for breath in a few minutes," he exclaimed. He feels, however, that this attitude will soon be gone, and the game will be as popular here as it is in Canada and England...