Word: chopping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schooner with no more newsworthy facts than that he had clicked on a radio for Alf Landon's acceptance speech (see below), trolled seven hours for tuna without getting a single strike. This week, bronzed and fit after a fortnight of his favorite sport, wearing new-grown mutton-chop whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home for the first time since 1933. At week's end he planned to journey to Quebec for a one-day call on Canada's Governor General, Lord...
...design, Phantom of Sex Appeal, for which Artist Sheila Legge solemnly glided through the crowded, stuffy gallery in a tight white satin gown, her head in a wire cage covered with pink paper rosebuds, a facsimile female leg in her hand. She had substituted the leg for a pork chop prescribed by Artist Dali...
...some 6,000,000 Germans voted for bullet-headed Ernst Thälmann for Chancellor. Communist Thalmann was still alive last week in a Nazi jail because Nazi strategists dared neither bring him to trial nor chop off his head. Despite all the exiles, all the concentration camps, all the executions, there were still enough undercover followers of Ernst Thalmann left at large in Germany last week to spread a thin layer of anti-Nazi leaflets from Switzerland to the Baltic...
...Midge Van Ryn's first tournament on boards did not disturb her in the least. With characteristic coolness she romped through to the final without losing a set. Then she met Norma Taubele, No. 12 in national ranking, 1934 indoor titleholder. By softball tactics and a deceptive chop stroke, Mrs. Van Ryn braked her opponent's speed. It took her only 45 minutes to put Miss Taubele into submission...
With a stiff breeze and chop as well as a strong current making rowing conditions far from ideal, Coach Whiteside's Varsity eights splashed up to the second bridge and back yesterday on their first trip this year. The number one boat went remarkably well considering the circumstances, although adjustment of riggers and slides tended to make the boat difficult...