Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burlington, Wis. Liars' Club was elected Douglas Gorce Corrigan...
...Dear Alben" could not be more faithful, but he is not nimble. Almost his first act as Majority Leader was to let New York's Wagner introduce the time-wasting anti-lynching bill, abhorrent to Southerners. When he was invited to speak to Washington's gay Alfalfa Club (dining) he asked Pat Harrison how long he should talk. An old hand, Pat Harrison said: "Well . . . about an hour and a half." Alben Barkley suspected nothing until, after an hour, the Alfalfans applauded when he said, "And in conclusion. . . ." As befits his plodding nature his favorite song is Wagon...
...average individual contribution by a "Novenite"-3?-totaled enough to pay novena costs, sometimes build up a surplus. At Father Keane's church the surplus was large enough to furnish snappy uniforms for the male ushers at services, and to uniform 400 members of a new Novena Auxiliary Club for young women...
PRELUDE FOR WAR-Leslie Charteris-Crime Club ($2). Characteristic Charteris story in which Simon Templar, the reckless Robin Hood of crime, outwits munitions manufacturers and thwarts a fascist revolution in France-fast-moving, but with the Saint less amusing than in his earlier adventures...
NIGHT ON THE PATHWAY-Charlotte Murray Russell-Crime Club ($2). Murders on a Midwest estate; suspicious neighbors involved in a family feud; and a corpulent, old-maid detective, Jane Amanda Edwards...