Word: bowler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Syracuse, early one morning last week, affable Carl Mensenberg took his stance to bowl his first singles game in the annual American Bowling Congress. Fifteen minutes later, Bowler Mensenberg had done the thing that most bowlers do only in their dreams. Handicapped by an arm injury, using a borrowed ball, watched by his best girl, he had bowled a perfect game...
Clad in the conventional costume of an English gentleman-striped trousers, black jacket, bowler-Conservative Lord Derby went to a Lone jn hotel to see a preview of 1935 styles for men to be exhibited at the British Industries Fair. Said he, after inspecting the show: "I am already in the fashion. I achieved this position by wearing exactly the same kind of clothes I wore...
Business was slow the last year of the Civil War but Truckson La France of Elmira, N. Y. had an idea. He put on his best bowler and went to call on the rich Diven family. "I've perfected a rotary fire engine," he announced. "I want money to make it with." With a snort Old Man Diven gave him the money. Inventor La France made his first fire engine in an old brick house, sold it to Elmira. It was enough to scare the horses, but it had two lines of hose and only one weakness. The cams...
...summer long, while the tests crowded almost all other news out of London papers, the controversy about "bodyline" bowling raged more violently than ever. In Australia, last year, British Bowlers Voce and Larwood frightened and outraged Australian batters by bowling full- on at their bodies and even at their heads. Australia protested. This year Voce and Larwood were left off the English team. That England managed to make the fifth match necessary at all was due to an amazing performance by Bowler Verity in the second...
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