Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Labor Peer Lord Ponsonby, who made his political career as a champion of the League of Nations, before that was a Court page to Queen Victoria and today is a Government supporter, appeared to echo the sentiments of most of Their Lordships when he keynoted: "Nobody in this country can have any enthusiasm for a war to aid Czechoslovakia...
...fifth annual Ice Carnival of the Skating Club of New York last week gave the U. S. its first look at the world's figure-skating champion, 22-year-old Felix Kaspar. To followers of skating this was more important than all the other events of that pretentious show-a "George Washington Ball"; a ballet set to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake; a "reproduction" of the Currier & Ives skating print; the appearances of Toronto's Louise Bertram & Stewart Reburn (the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers of skating), of Comedian Eric Wait with his absurd walking stunt, of 83-year...
...however, is jumping. He is only 5 ft. 5 in. tall, yet one of his Axel Paulsen jumps has been measured as over 4 ft. 6 in. high, 18 ft. 6 in. long. In last week's Carnival, for which his billings were changed (for diplomatic reasons) from "Champion of Austria" to "Champion of Vienna," he went through a routine of spurts, leaps, loops and spread-eagles that left his audience as pink as he with excitement...
...used to stalk around the lobby of Atlanta's Kimball House, deep in his cups, delivering his matchless tirades against the North. The other was the tvpe represented by the nervous, embattled Tom Watson of Thomson, only nine years old when the war ended, who began as a champion of the poor farmers, became a Populist candidate for President, and wound up as a rabble-rouser, an anti-Semite, anti-Catholic, defender of lynching, with a reputation as the "basest, most depraved, most poisonous man in Georgia...
Engaged. Thomas George Paul ("Tommy") Farr, 24, heavyweight boxing champion of Great Britain; to Eileen Wenzel, 27, former Ziegfeld Follies dancer, who in 1936 won a $40,774 damage suit from Louis J. Ehret Jr., brewery heir, on the grounds that an automobile crash had "marred her beauty and lessened her prospects of a favorable marriage...