Word: chess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piece of imaginative creation," explained the morose, poker-faced painter pointing to his master work. "If people see a nude in it I don't object. Anyway I long ago quit painting and took up chess. 1 was becoming a professional painter, and professionalism is always the death of Art. The old masters were professionals, which means that they were one-man factories. Art isn't made in factories. ... I find California a white spot in a gloomy world...
Since 1909 the U. S. chess championship has been a first-class monopoly, resting exclusively with tight-lipped Frank James Marshall. In 27 years he has defended his title only once. The $5,000 purse which challenger and defender had to raise excluded most hopefuls from a try. Last year, tired of this empty honor. Champion Marshall offered to retire, suggested an annual tournament for his title. The Marshall Chess Club promptly put up a big silver cup for the winner...
Most eyes were focused on a 24-year-old Polish Jew named Samuel Reshevsky, who started to play at 5. toured Europe as a chess prodigy at 8, startled U. S. experts at 9 by winning 41 out of 42 simultaneously-played matches. In 1924 he came to the attention of the late Julius Rosenwald, who was so impressed that he spent $11,000 to send Reshevsky through high school and college. Graduated from the University of Chicago in 1933 with only average grades, Reshevsky resumed chess, made his debut in European international play last year by beating onetime World...
...with 21-year-old Albert Simonson, youngest entrant. Last week Youngster Simonson, still tied with Reshevsky on the last day, lost his final match. Playing with customary meticulousness and gulping huge draughts of ice water, Samuel Reshevsky contented himself with a draw against his last opponent, became U. S. chess champion by a ^ point margin...
Original moves in any story formula as tightly established as the Grand-Hotel-in-Motion must necessarily consist of variations so stylized that, like the moves in chess, they are sensational chiefly to the initiated. One such device is having the off-duty pilot begin a flirtation with the heiress which he culminates grandly only after he has assumed his official status as Head Pilot...