Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard should take the lead in promoting badminton as a collegiate sport, asserted Jack Purcell, world's badminton champion, yesterday...
...expect to see in the near future," he said, "an intercollegiate badminton league which will include besides Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, the Canadian universities of Toronto and McGill." The only obstacle that is holding this up at present, in his opinion, is the lack of facilities for play in college gymnasiums which are used constantly in winter for basketball...
...Badminton, according to the champion, is the most exhausting of any racquet game, far more so than tennis or squash. He explained that it is an extremely tiring sport, being an overhead game entirely, with no chance for stalling...
Madge Evans now has a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An expert badminton player, she owns the largest collection of pajamas in Hollywood, prefers to sleep in a nightgown. Unmarried, she lives in a ten-room Spanish house with her mother and brother, likes practical jokes, plays golf constantly and poorly, is often seen with Tom Gallery, matchmaker for Hollywood's Legion Stadium. Healthy, talkative, blue-eyed, she studies in bed, considers The Little Duchess (1917) her best picture...
Like the Red Book it begins with a rogue's gallery with pert and pungent little quips beside the velvet-draped likeness and a list of activities such as "Badminton, Hospitality Committee, Member of Class VIII Judicial Board, Associate Justice, and Track Team...