Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their first tennis tournament on U. S. soil: the U. S. doubles championship, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4, defeating Defending Champions Donald Budge & Gene Mako, who had beaten them in two previous encounters during the current season (Wimbledon semi-finals and Davis Cup interzone final); at the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston...
Wearer of a daily carnation, owner of a quarter-million-dollar yacht, Lord Camrose is a Conservative with his eyes open, plays cricket with the Government, pursues a middle course in his papers and keeps his personality out of them. In a merciless four-year war for supremacy in the provinces, fought paper by paper, Lord Camrose trounced beefy Lord Rothermere, whose publications are often used as personal sounding boards. It was no accident that the rise of his Daily Telegraph coincided with the slow death of the ostrich-eyed Morning Post. Lord Camrose's empire now includes...
...friend Cordell Hull at his 16th and last commencement as president of Yale University. Three years younger than Secretary Hull, President Angell was bowing gracefully to Yale's rule that all faculty-men must retire at 68. All year Dr. Angell, who is lively as a cricket despite what he calls his "obvious and offensive senility," has made no bones of the fact that he was looking for another job. Last week he announced that he had accepted one, full-time and full-sized, as the first Educational Counsellor of National Broadcasting...
Married. Constance Cutter Morrow, daughter of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, sister of Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; to Aubrey Niel Morgan, Welsh cricket player and Cardiff department store executive, widower of Sister Elisabeth Morrow who died in 1934; in North Haven, Me. It was in his family's home that Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh took refuge after their flight from...
...London's Stock Exchange last week brokers developed a new parlor game of cricket-with-ping-pong-balls. Wall Street went in for ticktacktoe...