Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathy with Nazi ideals which I thought existed but could not bring myself to believe was really there." (Snapped Hugh Johnson next day at Mrs. Roosevelt: "That is exactly the kind of stuff that got us into the war in 1917.") Plainer people began to sound off. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney called Lindbergh's speech "impertinence." Michigan's Senator Prentiss Brown called it imperialistic. A Reserve Officer chaplain in Seattle spoke of "Herr von Lindbergh." Sculptor Suzanne Silvercruys of New York City told Canadians she was glad her memorial commemorating Lindbergh's Paris flight had been...
...borne by big-boned, vigorous Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, who has been acting as Regent every winter while His Majesty vacations on the Riviera, sipping champagne with attractive French mondaines and finding that at tennis almost everyone who plays with him, from Mile Suzanne Lenglen to the current Swedish champion, Tarsten Fronfors, has an understandable tendency to lose games and sets to this grand old royal democrat they like so much...
...late entries was Betsy Waffie of Charlestown, who plans to "put the Waffie on the Harvard gridiron." The seventeen-year-old world's champion batonnetter came dressed in a royal blue marching uniform, and carrying her pet one pound and ten ounce brass baton...
...entrant is Eunice Martin of Waltham, a former American Legion state champion and a colleague of Ruth Butterfield, B.U. batonetter. There was a commercial tie-up in the minds of some of the aspirants. If the dozen or more applications for the post at the Employment Office are any indication...
National American Legion champion, Jeanne Ladd of Swampscott, has already indicated her willingness to throw over Swampscott High for a Harvard affiliation, saying "they're nice boys; they generally get what they want?" Other fast-stepping twirlers are expected to follow Jeanne's lead...