Word: chesse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...afternoon, has dinner and goes to bed at seven. Ask him what he likes best and his answer will be Bach and Beethoven and Handel and Haydn and Mozart and San Francisco and ice-cream sodas (the first thing he asked for after his Manhattan concert), handball, climbing rocks, chess, the new Cadillacs, St. Bernard dogs and giving concerts. Some weeks ago Walter Damrosch cautioned him gravely against playing the Beethoven Concerto with the New York Symphony and Yehudi said "Why not? I only want to have some fun playing with the orchestra." He had his fun and critics, niggardly...
Some diversion is undoubtedly due the proctors, to whom an examination is neither a comedy nor a tragedy, but only a bore; yet some more charitable form of recreation might be their choice. If scholastic dignity should forbid the playing of cards, chess, checkers, or any of the lighter diversions of mankind, and there is nothing for it but to read the bluebooks as they are handed in, let them read in silence; let open mirth be restrained until the last victim has been led from the scene, and then let the rafters resound with Jovian laughter over the mistakes...
...University chess team won the championship of the Quadrangular Chess League, composed of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Rutgers, and took possession of the Belden-Stephens trophy, for the coming year, in New York last week...
...Harvard Chess Club will play in a four-cornered match against Yale, Princeton, and West Point from December 28 to December 30. The games will be tabled in the Manhattan Chess Club of New Yor City...
...odds favor the University outfit, as both Harvard and Princeton defeated Yale at the chess matches during the football season, and Yale succeeded in vanquishing West Point...