Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unrepining spinster, at 39 she finds plenty to do; besides her writing she takes an active interest in the Little Theatre movement, in the formation of women's lunch clubs, is in demand as a lecturer (she will lecture in the U. S. next January'), likes walking, badminton, tennis. Other books: The World's Bane, Cat-in-the Manger, The Spinner of the Years, The Partnership, Trio...
Because his Farmer office was always littered with samples of seed corn, that publication's new Des Moines building was made mouse-proof throughout. On its roof Henry Wallace plays badminton with Managing Editor Donald Murphy. In Washington he walks three miles to his office before 8 a. m., lunches at his desk, goes home after 6 p. m. Summers he climbs Pikes Peak in a bee line...
...played number five on the Eliot House golf team last year and is rumored to have a fine swing. For the number two position the Advocate has been forced to get hold of a graduate, C. C. Abbot '30, while F. P. Whitbeck '35, better known for his badminton stroke, will play in the third position. G. C. Streeter '34, P.B.H. social service man, and C. L. Sulzberger '34, poet, will held down the last two positions...
Chancellor Chase may live in the ugly, Victorian Chancellor's House on the campus proper, on University Heights overlooking the Harlem River. Here, doubtless, he will play badminton, at which he excels, and be accessible and agreeable to all who visit him. He will find his students far different from the corn-fed stalwarts of Illinois, the more so as he goes southward among N. Y. U.'s five scattered major centres. On the Heights there are: fraternity houses and dormitories; a genial campus policeman named John Quigley who was a fast friend of the late Sir Thomas...
James Walker Brown is necessary to the existence of the Bucharest Badminton Club because the club plays in and was organized by the Rumanian branch of the Y. M. C. A. Sole survivor of 47 Y. M. C. A. secretaries sent to Rumania since 1919 was Mr. Brown. In the early days Rumanians felt that it was an unpardonable impudence for the U. S. to send them missionaries of any sort. The Orthodox Church was opposed to the Y. M. C. A.; Rumanian students threatened the secretaries with assault. Under efficient Mr. Brown all these difficulties were straightened...