Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens who bowl, the letters A. B. C. stand, not for something children learn at school, but for the American Bowling Congress, in session for the past month at Indianapolis. Compared to the Congress at Indianapolis, the Congress at Washington is a midget. The A. B. C. has 300,000 members, of whom 15,000 made the trip to Indianapolis. The tournament, No. 1 event of the year for U. S. bowlers, costs $200,000, of which half is distributed to contestants as prizes. The rest goes for 32 brand-new alleys with colored gutters and chromium chalk-trays...
...Five Honolulu bowlers with a feeble 2,679 total did little to justify their long trip. Indiana's Governor Paul Vories McNutt, opening the Congress, was lucky to bowl a preposterously low score of 87. After 97,000 games had been rolled, no bowler had made a perfect score (300 points). A. B. C. delegates voted to hold the 1937 Congress in Manhattan...
...Metropolitan Opera Guild Mrs. August Belmont presented a gold traveling clock. The Metropolitan directors gave their usual scroll; the chorus, a silver coffee urn; the stage hands, a silver vase; the orchestra, a plaque. Nothing seemed to please Bori more than when Manager Edward Johnson handed her a silver bowl filled with gladioli "from the great Maestro Arturo Toscanini...
...pungent cooking odors wafted through the transom of General Hugh Samuel Johnson's office next door. When their complaints went unheeded, they bided their time, found the door open one day, spied the General's loyal Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson midway between icebox and stove with a bowl of onions. Questioned, Secretary "Robbie" admitted she often cooked steak for the General's lunch, but snorted: "I never cook onions because they don't agree with...
...complete the musical roster, the Hollywood Ballet is giving three performances at the Opera House on Friday evening, and Saturday afternoon and evening. Armed with the reputation it has won at the Hollywood Bowl, the company is touring American with a repertoire which includes a new ballet by Ferde Grofe...