Word: club
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edsel Bryant Ford's new yacht Sialia was launched at Neponset, Mass. Later this winter he may hoist the red-white-&-blue triangles of the Detroit Boat Club* and sail to southern waters...
...insurance man, is San Francisco's favorite amateur entertainer. So well-loved is he that his friends recently gave him a business and a secretary to run it for him. Last week he was homebound (via New Orleans) on a coast-to- coast roundtrip given him by the Family Club, a San Francisco comity which each year bestows good things on some one. To Roy Folger they gave a transcontinental trip because he had never been out of California. He boarded an eastbound train and found that his own money was "no good" even to porters, dining car stewards, boot...
...preachers and pedagogs; 119 of them have become college presidents. Last week University of Chicago students voted the Bible their Favorite Book. More than 40% of the enrolment are graduate students. President Hutchins says: "A University is not primarily for social contacts. You can get those at any country club...
...builders, was kept secret. That it was a bona fide project Harry Westcott of Westcott & Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted such a ship at a dinner of New Haven's august Union League Club. Westcott & Mapes are now estimating their bids on the structural work of not one, but two such planes. The builders expect that the first will be wrecked by the ineptitude of navigators with such a mighty machine. The lessons they learn in wrecking the first plane they can apply to flying...
...wife, Josephine, famed as the most dangerous married couple in bridge. All felt that the occasion was significant for something beside the trophy at stake. It was a contest between two basic theories of contract bridge. In recent months the "Vanderbilt convention" (TIME, Sept. 30) -a bid of one club to oblige Partner to declare strength or weakness-has been losing caste. Replacing it has emerged a new convention, a "forcing" system in which the initial bidder, wanting stronger indication of his partner's strength, bids not one club but two in any suit. After many cigarets had been...