Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is one telephone television circuit in regular operation. One end of it is in American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s offices at No. 195 Broadway, the other in the Bell Telephone Laboratories at No. 463 West St., Manhattan. Anyone trying it out goes into a small pitch dark booth and waits until the image of the person at the other end, the size of a desk-photograph, flickers on a little lens. Voices in telephonic television boom resonantly and recognizably (they are carried over regular telephone wires) but the image on the little screen is uncertain, like a snapshot...
...failures of modern life that has worried the Vagabond more than the business depression or the post war madness is the decline, yes and the downright fall, of the theatre. Time was when the old fellow could slump down in his seat and enjoy the full richness of Booth's baritone or the exquisite pathos of Mrs. Fiske's Becky Sharp. But now he is subjected to the baser aspects of free love or human propagation whenever he so much as steps into a theatre...
Married. Representative Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth, 40, of the 14th Massachusetts Congressional District; and Florence Booth, 28, president of the Junior League of Louisville, Ky.; in Manhattan. Harvard athlete, Congressman Wigglesworth was chief assistant (1924-27) to Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert, whose wife Louise Todd is also Louisville-born...
...very poor weather conditions, the Crimson riflemen repeated their victory of last year over the Hartford men, although by a somewhat smaller margin, while on the whole the shooting did not come up to last year's standard. J. A. Booth '33, with 96 out of a possible 100 points, obtained the best individual score of the meet. T. C. Buckley '32, and K. R. Ludiam '33, who have also qualified as expert marksmen, both shot considerably below their usual standard. Samuel Powel, Jr. '32 and W. M. Wing '31 were the two regular members of the team missed yesterday...
Scoro--Harvard 521, Trinity 511, High scorer, J. A. Booth '33, 96; Laubin (T), 92; Hall (T), 88; K. R. Ludlam '33, 88; E. V. Seeler '32, 88; T. C. T. Buckloy '32, 87; Doolittle (T), 86; Lawton (T), 85; Mitchell (T), 82; David Weld '34, 82; W. W. Sargent '32, 80; Eddy...