Word: clubmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fairly certain to make the squad, according to Barclay, are Bill Rickenbacker, Walter Butler, who played on last year's informal team, Tyke Wilcox, Bob Orr, and Lawrence Kinnicutt. All of these clubmen have been breaking into the seventies more or less consistently...
...Three Clubmen. Many of their routines are now remembered by Broadway's elder denizens with a nostalgia like their memories of Barrymore's Hamlet or Lillian Russell's corsetry. There was, for example, the team's greeting to customers who were also their personal friends...
...Manhattan's Durand-Ruel Galleries visitors could look upon Adolphe William Bouguereau's nearly 12-ft. masterpiece, Nymphs and Satyr. A quartet of ripe, naked maidens prancing around a preoccupied faun was for 24 years the despair of Victorian moralists and the delight of the clubmen who crowded Manhattan's Hoffman House...
...previous game with the 97 Club last December, the Varsity drew 2 to 2. However, since it was the first time that the Clubmen had been on the ice together, it is altogether probable that they have improved as much as or more than the Hoddermen...
...ruck of columnists is his knack of translating some event into sound sense on the very day that people want to hear about it. Somehow he manages to move mentally a half-step faster than the mass mind. Farmers rocking on their porch chairs in the evening, clubmen lounging beside an afternoon cocktail, come to Clapper conclusions almost exactly the day he does. With the same painful care that his daily readers were exercising, he had been trying to spell out very simply just what was the central issue in the 1940 campaign. The war had obscured the issue, Candidate...