Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sports went into the Army with the athletes. Boxing and soccer, popular in 1914-18 with the Tommies, went inter-regimental. The first wartime boxing match, attended by 2,000, was held at the Aldershot training camp. All horseracing fixtures (like the Cesarewitch Stakes, on which millions are gambled annually in the Irish Sweepstakes) were canceled, but the blood stock industry, which unearthed great horses like Gainsborough and Hurry On in World War I, hoped to keep racing horses even without crowds...
Died. Clarissa Curtis Cantacuzene, 39, divorced wife of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, Chicago socialite real-estate man, son of Grand Duke Nicholas' aide de camp, great-grandson of Ulysses S. Grant; by her own hand (gas); in Manhattan...
Last February the Interstate Commerce Commission, which supervises all vehicular interstate haulage for hire, was confronted with an odd request. A man named Clarence Young Rose wanted permission to continue to operate what he called Georgia Caravan Camps Inc., which consisted of an annual cross-country trip of a large group of adolescents in a fleet of truckbusses, led, for cash, by Mr. Rose. Before granting the license, the ICC thought it wise to have a good look at Clarence Young Rose and the Georgia Caravan Camps Inc. Its findings: Clarence Young Rose is a big handsome 51-year...
...straight for the sandy beach instead of her wharf. She ran aground, stuck fast, and over her railings into the water swarmed 125 Jewish refugees, bundles & all, squealing and gurgling to set foot on their Promised Land. Police herded them, and 750 more still on board, into a concentration camp. They came from Germany and Czechoslovakia, said they had been sailing without a captain for eleven weeks...
...hypothetical earnings for the next two) by the high-powered talent agency of Myron Selznick & Co., which claimed that it got Producer Brown his $2,250-a-week-and-up contract with 20th Century-Fox. Ordinarily for a talent agent to sue a producer would be comparable to a camp follower giving a general the hotfoot. Last week's suit was one more proof that the hotfoot is Agent Myron Selznick's specialty...