Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military potentate. As sleepy Köslin came to life with martial activity, recruits and war materials pouring in, he had the town councilors substitute busses for their antiquated tram-cars, including late busses for moviegoers. He entertained well and often, guzzling beer in soldier-size quantities. He liked chess and horseback riding as well as motorcycling and engineering. He intervened to save their horses for a few squadrons who were downcast by the cavalry's motorization. The soldiers of his division called him "The Old Man" for his paternalism. When September 1 came last year, the 21st Army...
...Papers and Addresses of Franklin Roosevelt, personally presented by President Roosevelt last autumn. Luxembourg's canny, genial Foreign Minister Joseph Bech (who resigned as Premier because he thought he had held the job too long), likes to swap stories with newspapermen. The newspapermen like to hang out in chess-playing Herr Klopp's hotel at Remich and watch the Germans across the river...
Absolute tsar of all he surveys is the correspondents' genial dean. Addicted to chess, rich tweeds and almost flammable Virginia cigarets, Dean Young long ago began whiling away hours during dull administrations by practicing Senatorial mannerisms, gradually became more Senatorially impressive than most lawmakers...
...Newshawk Young could have retired seven years ago on half-pay, refused because retirement might interfere with 1) his chess-playing, 2) a steady flow of scoops to his paper...
Arrested by immigration officers was Prince Nicholas Obolensky, chess player, art lecturer and man-about-Manhattan (third cousin of Vincent Astor's ex-brother-in-law, Prince Serge Obolensky), for overstaying his welcome...