Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pally, hands-&-knees Uncle Don has a club in which not only Sistie & Buzzie Dall but Shirley Temple are members, and full membership is earned by sending in for tokens of every product Uncle Don plugs. One season he plugged 14, and full-fledged members eventually cost their parents a pretty penny. But parents tolerate him because he inveighs against such social errors as nail biting, gulping, temper, socking, preaches a series of corrective little stories involving two hypothetical and unruly tikes named Willapuss-Wallapuss and Suzan-Beduzin. Somehow all this is as beguiling to children as bubblegum...
Holy See, the remainder of a $6,000,000 estate to Carroll Club, Inc. (young Catholic business girls). Dr. John Martin Vincent, retired professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, left $1,000,000 to the University's history department...
...magazine-verse is Sara Henderson Hay's This My Letter. Its author herself is typical of the many Americans who are harassed by an almost total lack of disadvantages. She has: a genteel Southern education, a husband (Raymond Holden, verse-writing novelist and Book-of-the-Month Club editor), an imaginary small son (who, in This My Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree to radio studios, lecture platforms and the pages...
While the Varsity soccer team was taking a 5-4 defeat from the Swedish-American Club in a practice game, the Yardling booters nosed out Governor Dummer 1-0 in their season's opener Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
...Crimson Varsity's loss to the Worcester club was a heartbreaker as the decisive tally was made by a Crimson substitute, Arthur Neff, who was playing for the opposing Swedish-American team, which was short of men. Mendell, Page and Neff all played consistently well for the Varsity; Page scoring twice, and Neff twice, once for the Crimson and once for the visitors...