Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people like the Renshaws (with or without the Renshaw luck and pluck) appeared in the U. S. press. Some 125,000 of the 32,000,000 who live on U. S. farms had themselves a time at the 40th International Live Stock Exposition, the 18th National 4-H-Club Congress, the 21st American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, many a simultaneous farmfest in Chicago...
...hard but twinkling eye, perfectly appreciates that the moderate whoopee requirements of Tommy Atkins on leave are all but irrepressible. Last week Sir John continued to maintain a firm laissez-faire stand toward London night life despite a great twittering of complaint from the shires that today night club "harpies and hussies" are again preying on the morals and emptying the purses of apple-cheeked subalterns...
Whatever the opening night of "Too Late To Laugh" proved about the merits of the Dramatic Club's new production, it did spotlight the slow strangling of education in dramatics by unreasonable labor union restrictions. Prevented from procuring a Boston theatre, the Club was compelled to use Sanders, where, as critics almost universally pointed out, the effectiveness of the play was marred by inadequate facilities...
...result, creative drama is seriously threatened. Driven from Europe by the war, it can be preserved only by aiding, rather than sabotaging, such experimental theatrical organizations as the Dramatic Club represents--a fact which short-sighted union officials have failed to grasp. Even had the Club met the exorbitant costs, members, not allowed by union rules to handle scenery, lights, or music, would have been denied fundamental training in the technical side of dramatics...
...developing so rapidly that he gives them a chance. to extend their favored rivals tomorrow. The Barhabymen started slowly in the tough league competition but in their last two starts have registered 4 to 1 wins over the Newton Y. M. C. A. and the Newton Tennis and Racquets Club...