Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marian ("Swede") Mansfield, 18, Northwestern University sophomore, diver, who, her own turn finished, wrapped herself in a brown blanket, sat in a camp chair ostentatiously looking in the opposite direction while her rivals sprang off the low board. Obviously the most personable contestant in the event, she was also, in the opinion of five judges, the ablest by a shade. Claudia Eckert, a mop-haired, 18-year-old Northwestern amphibian who, like famed Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, is indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost...
There will be four classes a week, held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at three and four o'clock. This course is especially recommended for men thinking of doing camp work this summer...
Irishmen, by & large, are poor sailors but excellent admirals. The late Earl Beatty was an Irish admiral. So is Edward VIII's chief naval aide-de-camp, Admiral Sir William ("Ginger") Boyle. Irish Dramatist Lord Dunsany's brother, Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, is Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, and the principal naval aide-de-camp to George V was an Admiral Kelly...
...Paul Bunyan. famed superman of lumber-camp legend, had been a hockey player, he would have liked a game that was played in Montreal last week. The two teams, Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Maroons, skated onto the ice at 8:30 p. m. At the end of the three standard 20-minute periods, neither team had made a goal. Because the rules in the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs prohibit ties, they went on playing...
...editorial features which would appeal to home-owners and would-be home-owners of lesser incomes. She posed for photographs to illustrate practical articles on cooking and home decoration. She published helpful hints for cultivators of small, suburban gardens. She went into the details of furnishing a family camp. Housewives were instructed on combining a guest room and study,were told what an espalier fruit tree is and how unpretentious Anne Morrow Lindbergh's aerial wardrobe contains one pair of shoes "suitable to wear at balls and dinners, and also at teas and receptions and also for semi-sport...