Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking one-half of the sum recovered. Last week's suit, brought by a Mrs. Libbie Maxwell against "Big Bill" Johnson & four associates, declared that her son-in-law, Herman Van Spankeren Jr., lost $15,000 of hers over a period of seven months in the D & D Club, Horseshoe Club, Harlem Stables and Devlin Club...
...most part factory workers (at about $125 a month) for the company (Bona Allen leather company) that owns the team. The other half of the semi-pro class play on teams owned by small-town merchant groups or individuals with $5,000 and a yen to own a ball club. They include many a onetime major-leaguer on his way out, many a schoolboy on his way up. But the backbone of the semi-pros are barbers, butchers, lumberjacks, bootblacks and other workmen who play baseball three times a week (two twilight games and one on Sunday) for a little...
...competition for Freshman Football manager, long recognized as one of the outstanding and most worthwhile extra-curricular activities for Freshmen, will begin on Wednesday, September 28, at 1:30 o'clock in the Varsity Club; This completion offers Freshmen not only an excellent way of meeting a great number of their classmates, as well as men in other classes, but afford them a chance to get acclimated in Harvard in short order. It provides, moreover, an influence on first-year men which tends to prevent them from being overwhelmed by the complete freedom of college life...
Such, at least, is the enterprising idea of James W. D. Seymour '17, president of the Harvard Club of Los Angeles, and Peter Macgowan '42, son of the Broadway and Hollywood producer, Kenneth Macgowan...
...matter of fact Leary is getting worried, since his chances look so promising. "I've found out all these politicians are members of every kind of club," he said, "so I've announced that I am not and never will be a member of the Elks, the Eagles, the Red-Jackets, or the Fat Men's Club. Now I'm sure to get licked...