Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means spectacular crowd of 25,000 began to see the fair sights in earnest. In the Palace of Science was many a 20th Century industrial gadget and the original gold spike with which Leland Stanford joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in 1869. In the Ford Bowl was playing the San Diego Symphony, to be followed throughout the summer by orchestras from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and the 250-voiced Mormon Tabernacle Choir from Salt Lake-City. Mexico had again sent north its Monte Alban Mayan treasures. But the real fun was, as usual...
...Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices which partly compensated for the reduced tariff advantages; and Cuba, assured of an outlet for about 70% of its sugar at profitable prices, was rescued from total economic collapse. Meantime the price of sugar in the consumer's bowl has risen about...
...Chicago, Dentist Leonard S. Klein noticed that a female in his fish bowl of guppies was transparently pregnant and overdue. He lifted her out, pricked her with a lancet. Out drained 20 nearly invisible guppies. The 1½-in. mother survived what ichthyologists called the first Caesarean section of a guppy...
...bail, which he promptly forfeited, Representative Cannon issued a statement: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. . . ." Among artists made jobless by the closing of Manhattan's famed funclub Casino de Paree was Jeanette McCully, known to patrons as the Girl in the Fish Bowl, In the intermissions of the Casino floor show Miss McCully slipped off her dancing costume, seated herself on a seashell chair in a cubicle off the bar, with a silken "seaweed" laprobe over her knees. In front of Miss McCully was a curtain, in front of the curtain a tank...
Catching up last week on her dancing and French, Miss McCully thought she would turn down an offer from the proprietor of a Chicago fish bowl. Reason: she would have to drop her seaweed laprobe...