Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missionary Shepherd is today the closest white collaborator of Mme Chiang Kaishek. Last week he was in the U. S. on a speaking tour. In a precise, controlled voice, Mr. Shepherd spoke part of his piece on the radio last week at a New York Advertising Club luncheon. Its gist: "Left to themselves, the Japanese will never subjugate China. With the assistance of America [i.e. with U. S. scrap iron, other war materials], I sometimes fear that Japan will temporarily win this war. I find it difficult to decide whether I am needed more in America than in China...
...Armory. Most sensational performance: Clarence ("Buddy") Combs, son of a New Jersey horse trader, scored twelve of his team's 15 goals in the first game, six of its ten goals in the second, won the junior (medium-goal) championship almost singlehanded for New Jersey's Pegasus Club...
...Chicago garment-worker's family. Goodman recalls that he first met the late great Trumpeter Beiderbecke on Aug. 8, 1923, because that was the day the youngest Goodman, Jerome, was born. The first band under Goodman's direction was a pickup combination that he took to Cannon Club for a 1929 Princeton house party. His first national publicity, on the occasion of his 1935 Sunday concert, while playing in Chicago, is attributed to TIME...
Behind barred doors at the Harvard Club, New York's diminutive Mayor LaGuardia spoke to a large group of Law School students, professors, and alumni at the Law Review's annual banquet last night...
Coming back to his room, he opened the envelope cautiously. Out fell a two-page typewritten letter and a lot of enclosures from the Jane Fuller Club announcing that it could "secure just the kind of wife you want in a very short time." The letter ended with the command that Vag "act today! Why besitate? Satisfaction guaranteed...