Word: bayard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Walter Kramer got for winning the men's badminton championship last week was a silver cup, named for New York socialites Bayard Clarke and E. Langdon Wilks who were the original U. S. badminton pioneers in 1878. Unlike England's "Grand Old Man" of badminton, Sir George Thomas, whose achievement of winning 78 national badminton titles in the British Isles from 1903 to 1928 is rivaled only by his position as England's best chess player, they did not contribute much to the game's later triumph. Badminton's current status...
Duggan said that he had picked Borah's speech attacking the proposed court change because he thoroughly agreed with it. A contrast was made by Elwood M. Rabenold, Jr. '37, who spoke from the opposite point of view, reciting a speech by the Hon. James A. Bayard on "The Judiciary...
After Coach Samborski had removed his fifteen handpicked Freshman basketeers, Cox made up ten teams from the remaining men and ran off a tournament throughout the winter which was won by Captain Jack Crane's smooth passing outfit consisting of Dave Aldrich, Bayard Clark, Charlie Clark, Nelson Gildersleeve, and Harris Westheimer...
...Mayne '38, of Sanborn, Ia., "Daniel O'Connell," by Wendell Phillips; Laird Mck. Ogle, '37, of Norwalk, Conn., "Hector's Farewell to Andromache," from The Hiad, Book VI, Homer; Ellwood M. Rabenold Jr. '37, of New York, N. Y., "The Judiciary Act of 1802," by Hon. James A. Bayard; Fred Rogosin '39, of Dorchester, Mass., "Steel," by Joseph Auslander; and Willard M. Whitman Jr. '39, of Marquette, Mich., "The Creation," by James W. Johnson...
...Dealers) drew Senator Neely of West Virginia, Representative Maverick of Texas, and Mrs. Roosevelt. A $25 dinner at Detroit had Senator Elbert D. Thomas of Utah (Governor Murphy was ill). The $50 dinner in Chicago had Senators Duffy and Lewis and the same priced dinner in Manhattan had Herbert Bayard Swope. No less than 20 reliable Senators and over 30 Congressmen spoke hither & yon. How much all these dinners netted, Democratic statisticians had not yet calculated, but the gross take of the dinner-of-dinners at Washington was a matter of simple arithmetic: 1,300 dinners times $100 a plate...