Word: chess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton, 77, British pianist & composer, self-styled "champion letter-writer to the British press" (2,000 published since 1900); in London. Other recreations: "Looking at ancient and memorable buildings, ... examining and criticizing modern edifices, . . . listening to the debates in the House of Commons, . . . billiards, draughts, chess and cards...
...were the original U. S. badminton pioneers in 1878. Unlike England's "Grand Old Man" of badminton, Sir George Thomas, whose achievement of winning 78 national badminton titles in the British Isles from 1903 to 1928 is rivaled only by his position as England's best chess player, they did not contribute much to the game's later triumph. Badminton's current status on the U. S. scene is largely a tribute to the power of the cinema...
...only Government concentrator, Davis, is on the Debating Executive Committee, and a member of the Peace Society. Geismer is majoring in the department of History and Literature and was on the Union Library Committee. As a Freshman, Moore was President of the Union Debating Society and made the University chess team; he now is President of the Chess Club, and a member of the Classical Club and the Debating Council...
During the past few years international relations have been thought of as a great game of chess, played in well-planned manicures and for gigantic stakes. Recent events have made it a different picture. Now it is a huge game of strip poker, in which France, Great Britain, and the United States have entered wearing winter underwear, chinchilla ulsters, and heavy overshoes. Hitler and Mussolini were already shivering when they sat down at the table, and there is a question as to how much stripping they can indulge in before catching pneumonia...
Waiters, numbering 229 in all, received wages amounting to $32,000, the largest total for any term-time student occupation. Included in the 48 varieties of work were such odd jobs as teaching chess, modelling for artists, traffic directing, and snow shoveling...