Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate collegiate cohorts, or is to be a spectacle staged for the entertainment of the public? The Tournament of Roses officials are now being seriously criticized for nominating Duke to play the University of Southern California in the floral classic. Apparently some feel that the public would prefer Texas Christian University to the Blue Devils. This opinion has been crystallized in the words of certain Californian sports writers, one of whom, Bill Henry, of the Los Angeles Times, says, "The Trojans apparently don't give a whoop who or what the public wants . . . a good many people are going...
Coach Clipper Smith, whose Wildeat teams have been tied but undefeated in 20 games since 1936, voiced the opinion that Texas Tech "was on the upgrade" but that Villanova had hoped for a crack at Texas Christian, Carnegie Tech "or a team of that calibre...
...loom as it loomed in 1915, but press, pulpit and meeting house were the scenes of spontaneous outbursts. As Mary Pickford quaintly put it, "I don't know what our dear Lord Jesus would think if he were to come back to earth today and see what his Christian babies are doing." And citizens of White Plains, N. Y. called on Charles A. Lindbergh and Henry Ford to return medals they lately accepted from Germany...
...football season reached the homestretch last week most sportswriters agreed that Notre Dame possessed the No. 1 team of the U. S. But some there were who cast their votes for Texas Christian, which had rolled up 234 points while defeating all nine of its opponents. No. 1 player on the Texas Christian team is 150-lb. Quarterback Davey O'Brien, responsible for an even 200 of its 234 points. Against Rice Institute last week little Davey turned in a routine performance: three times he threw touchdown passes and once he carried the ball over the goal line himself...
Addressing the one-day emergency conference of the seaboard region of the United Palestine appeal, King caustically referred to "so-called 'Christian' nations" which permit Jewish persecution and he predicted that Poland soon may inaugurate a vigorous anti-Jewish drive