Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whispered Mother Ruby: "Barbara has an offer from a New York night club at $1,000 a week...
Barbara was at South Paris' cinemansion watching a jungle film, Booloo, when the news of her father's conviction reached her. Mascara streaking her cheeks, she ran out sobbing. Next day, Boston announced that any night club contracting for her services would be closed...
...within half a mile of the child's house, he will play in the streets. To U. S. children. WPA has brought thousands of new playgrounds in the last three years. Great Britain will try another way. Announced last week was the organization of the Five Million Club, chairmaned by Rugby School's headmaster P. H. B. Lyon. It urged school children and adults to become members at a shilling a year, promised that each sixpence would buy a square foot of playground. The club has already signed up 20,000 members. As it reduces the number...
Although KQV ceased broadcasting out-of-town games early in May, its continued airing of home games forced the ball club last month to lift its ban and allow to its sponsors the games KQV was pirating. In Federal district court, KQV, still brash, explained that it had rented space in a building overlooking the ball park, argued that it had a perfect right to broadcast what it saw from its own property. Promptly the Pirates raised a canvas screen to shut off KQV's knothole. To plug the knothole tight, last week Judge F. P. Schoonmaker ruled that...
...Back in 1913, a young undertaker named John A. Maxwell played golf with two companions on the Raritan Valley Country Club course, Somerville, N. J. As they approached the tenth green, a thunderstorm broke. A forked tongue of lightning licked the fairway, kicked all three players on to their backs, ripped one golf bag down the middle. None of the players was injured. Last week, on the same fairway of the same golf course, in the corresponding week of the corresponding month, at the same time of day (about 3:15 p.m.) Golfer Maxwell was struck down and killed...