Word: cavortings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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NEWSPAPERMAN STUFF: Edwin A. Lahey, the Chicago scribe now at Harvard (on one of the Nieman Fellowships) was asked by a Boston Gazette to do a guest drama criticism on the Harvard Hasty Pudding show, in which the college boys cavort as chorus girls. . . . Mr. Lahey didn't think much of the show and said so in his review, but the paper didn't print it. . . . Presumably because the event is always a big social moment in Boston and the home towners might be offended. . . . His wind-up bears repeating, however: "These shows were originally presented for the entertainment...
...babies on South Oyster Bay or diaper them in a room specially set aside, and "build their bodies" under free instruction facilities); Jacob Riis Park (which has the world's largest one-unit parking space -14,000 cars); Orchard Beach on Pelham Bay (where 100,000 bathers can cavort on 6,600,000 cu. yd. of ocean sand of which 2,500,000 was hauled from Rockaway); Bethpage Park (where the near-rich can play polo and all can play golf on four 18-hole courses for $1 and $2 greens fees); seven other public golf courses; 161 City...
...Louis Arthur Johnson, past commander (1932-33) of the American Legion, last summer banned U. S. Army Air Corps planes and personnel from non-military exhibitions, that is, from flying at fairs, civic celebrations, etc. Sole exception: American Legion conventions. Last week Mr. Johnson proudly watched 200 army planes cavort above the Legion's parade in Los Angeles. Next day Mr. Johnson's fellow Legionnaire, Chief of Air Corps Oscar Westover, having directed the Legion air show, took off from March Field for Lockheed Airport at Burbank, Calif. Arriving there, the piloting general skimmed across the field...
...bail bond, she was ferried to Manhattan to await the outcome of an appeal to the U. S. Circuit Court. Same day Judge Mandelbaum's ruling was made, members of the cast of Manhattan's bankrupt and closed French Casino, where Magda de Fontages was to cavort, sailed on the Normandie, weeping bitterly. Said one: "We gave New York some of the best nudes they've ever seen here...
Harvard's cork-capped pursuers of the willow spheroid will cavort against Army's trio on Thursday in the Inter-collegiate polo championship. Army has won the Townsend Cup two years in succession and is favored to win again...