Word: club
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playing against the Norfolk, Country Club on Thursday the Crimson netmen again started out to make it a clean sweep by taking the six singles matches and the first doubles match, but here their streak was stopped when the two remaining doubles combinations lost in three sets after they had taken the opening...
Intimations of trouble came when the Senate Ladies Luncheon Club elected Mrs. Senator Moses of New Hampshire to succeed Mrs. Vice President Dawes as their chief, instead of Mr. Gann's wife who, as sister of the widower Vice President-Elect, had already begun to function as the latter's official hostess (TIME...
Mystery Square. The original idea was to dramatize Robert Louis Stevenson's eerie tale, The Suicide Club. But the authors evidently were not content to use the device of building crescendo by the steady growth of suspense, so they introduced shrieks, hysterics, faints, shots in the dark. The result is a conventional thriller which Stevenson, were he in the habit of haunting Broadway, would never recognize. The cast is competent enough, especially Gavin Muir, Hubert Druce and Marie Adels, but the general result is more mysterious than was intended...
...fill in at shortstop, Huggins bought the services of one Lynford Lary from the Oakland, Calif., club for a reported price of $75,000. Florida sunshine, however, revealed serious faults in Lary's fielding. What to do? A young man on the substitute bench, Leo Durocher, had the answer. Durocher is 23. He did not cost $75,000, nor one-tenth that much. He has been on the Yankee "Yannigan" string for several years. Huggins liked him because he was alive. When the oldtimers "rode"' Durocher he talked back. He even wrote them fresh letters...
...Against American automotive competition, Europe has just begun to fight!" Thus, vehemently, cried Minister of Commerce Anton Novak last week to Czech and Slovak motorists assembled in Prague for the inauguration of the Czechoslovak Automobile Club. Today U. S.-made cars imported into the Republic total more than one-third the number of cars produced within Czechoslovakia. Against this influx Czechoslovakia is struggling Piccolo withher home-made cars, the littlePiccolo Six ($800), the Zetka Six ($1,000), Tatra Two, Four orSix (top price $1,200), Praga Eight ($8,000 to $10,000), and the Skoda Eight ($8,000), made...