Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Training camp exhibitions...
...Exposed" by The Police Gazette (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) which appeared last fortnight. Few-even of those who remember the Gazette in every barber shop as the indispensable reference work on sports-were aware that the lurid sheet began in the role of vice-crusader. George Wilkes and Enoch Camp established it in Manhattan in 1845 "to assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of [felons'] names, aliases and persons. . . ." The exposures started with policy gambling (now a thriving operation in most large Negro centres) and stopped at nothing. Violence and threats of libel...
...readycut and marked, labor furnished from the locality (until this year, labor was not included). The homes vary from three to nine rooms, cost from $3,500 to $20,000 including everything except furniture. Sears, Roebuck sells that too. Stock designs are kept for milk houses, stables, silos, summer camp bungalows. The company will alter its plans to suit, or even build to order. A prize customer was Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach (paid $77,000 for the Alice-in-Wonderland manuscript) who has a Sears, Roebuck summer home at Ocean Beach...
...when Harvard won 7 to 0) Johnny Maulbetsch, a squat little back who propelled himself with his free arm and two legs, carried the ball from his own five-yard line to the Harvard 10-yard line, a march that won Maulbetsch a place on Walter Camp's all-America team. Maulbetsch was one of two backs that Michigan has had within the last 25 years who was a consistent ball carrier; the other was Jimmy Craig, brother of Ralph Craig, double winner of the Olympic sprint events. Jimmy had almost as much speed as Ralph...
Libby Holman, backed up against a black velvet drop, performing economical, graceful gestures with her fingers, ably ululating an English importation called "Body & Soul." Rear-Admiral Fred Allen, attired in Antarctic haberdashery, lecturing before an incomprehensible hodgepodge projected on the screen ("the base camp"), explaining that his expedition has discovered and claimed "not ten, not 20, but 100,000 sq. mi. of brand new snow for the U. S." Also Fred Allen wondering if he whistled in his sleep: "When I woke up this morning there were four dogs in bed with me." Twelfth Night. Perhaps because the works...