Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fingernails enameled a brilliant scarlet. The Blue Danube in swing. Saint-Gaudens' Lincoln with face lifted, wrinkles erased and character lines obliterated. The legs of a fine old Chippendale piece knocked off and replaced with chrome pipe. The interior of Mount Vernon done over in 1938 night-club modern. The mellow patina of a fine old bronze reliquary burnished away...
Indignant Secretary Stuart McElroy of the Baltimore Model Yacht Club then began writing to the papers, explaining that the model yacht basin would cost at least three-quarters of the $40,000. Demanded Mr. McElroy: "Whether the $10,000 polo field is a worthy project or not remains to be seen, but who can dispute the worthiness of a model yacht basin...
...trade unions, a many-millioned mass which has virtually no credo because within it is every credo under the U. S. sun. But there are other A. F. of L.s. The one usually labeled in newsprint as "the A. F. of L." is a tight little club of 17 executive councilmen who expound and at intervals alter the otherwise missing credo. Last is the A. F. of L. which goes on show as "the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor...
Last week the convention and The Club met simultaneously at Houston, Texas. Assembled in the lofty new Coliseum were 600 career men of Labor. Mostly they were gentlemen toilers who had worked up to union office and comfortable expense accounts. Plain men seated along pine tables, they daily went through the conventional motions indicated by their President William Green, a plain man whose career had been a model of its kind. At evening the placid delegates rejoined their wives, retired to the movies or enjoyed simple sociability in hotel rooms. A minority frequented the convention's one play spot...
...Baron Munchausen. . . . For a long time he has not made any aviation records and as a flier he does not represent anything worth while. . . . The few flights which he is now making in his little plane are now performed in this country by any member of the Aviation Club, any peasant, worker or student...