Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music of Ken Reeves and his orchestra which played from 10 o'clock until 3:30 and of Michael Levin's combo which took over until the party broke up at 5 o'clock, combined with the ten gallon punch bowl to make the party a success...
...went into the movie business with a bang by producing three superb documentary films in four years. In 1936 came The Plow That Broke the Plains, in 1937 The River, in 1940 The Fight for Life. All three were directed by Pare Lorentz. The first dealt with the dust bowl, the second with flood control, the third probed childbirth mortality in U. S. slums. Even captious critics granted that its 69 minutes of clinical realism established Pare Lorentz as No. 1 U. S. director of documentary films...
...skillful sailing of Roger Wilcox '42, the Harvard dinghy team made the best showing of the year, when it ended up fourth in the final standing out of sixteen colleges competing for the Morss Bowl in the Basin Saturday and Sunday. Princeton took top honors with an aggregate total of 362 points...
...dreams he is a bellhop in the hotel. Weird guests arrive-a black man in white tie and tails with a gorilla, a headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely...
...unidentified dog, other amounts for garters, suspenders, socks, flowers. Last week the New York Public Service Commission had another list, dug up by one of its exploring accountants. Examples: $410 for photographs (of Hopson), $956 for liquor, $337 for cigars, $1,218 for fruit, $49.50 for a bowl to put it in. An item reflecting the high cost of living away from home: $125 to install a $68.85 radio in a hotel room...