Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse-racing fan, from the paddock-club swell to the tinhorn sport, which track he would choose if he could visit only one before he dies, and nine out of ten answers are: Saratoga...
Purpose of the meeting was to weld the scattered defense leagues into a national pressure group with a program of slum clearance, Government rent control, increased legal responsibilities for landlords. Although the Labor Party lawyers' Haldane Club supplies it with free legal advice, no political party except the Communist has yet taken official notice of the Federation...
...court tournaments, to be included among the first ten in U. S. ranking and be selected for the Davis Cup is the ambition of every young man whose tennis game is good enough to win a State or district championship. This week at the toney Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club on the Jersey coast, the cream of the current crop of Davis Cup hopefuls, more enthusiastic than ever because there is no titan like Donald Budge to tower over them this year, will match strokes in the first of the four major grass-court tournaments that annually serve...
...Nylandska Jaktklubben (Royal Finnish Yacht Club) put up a golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors...
When Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones began the Central City festival (with Lillian Gish in Camille), he frowned on sideshows, drinking shindigs in the Teller House bar. Present producer-director of the festival is Frank St. Leger, Chicago musician. Last week square dances, tintype studios, night-club entertainers flourished once more in Central City. With The Yeomen running up the best box office in recent years, likelihood was that the festival would henceforth stick to plushy musical shows...