Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost without fail each Tuesday and Friday since March 8, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt has received reporters in his large oval White House office, his Hyde Park study or his Warm Springs cottage. Seldom does anything exciting come of these meetings, for reporters realize that it is not cricket to harry the President of the U. S. with too-pointed questions, and Franklin Roosevelt knows full well how to shut down on such questions with a frown or a laugh. But because the President's responses may not be quoted directly (without his special permission), the secret minutes...
...performance, the White House furnished a makeshift stage, all props except a seltzer bottle (the White House uses club soda). Secret Service men forbade the use of a five-and-ten-cent-store cap pistol. The President roared, particularly at the skit It's Not Cricket to Picket. After watching FTP Plowed Under, a travesty on the Federal Theatre, F. D. R. remarked: "I wish the Senate and House could see this one." After listening to Harold Rome's Call It Un-American with...
...lifts" in the grandstands, five bars, a ladies' tea room. But in spite of Director Allison's attempt to elevate the sport above the "cap & muffler" crowd, soccer is still, for the most part, the game of the working classes. England's upper crust still prefers cricket and rugby...
...contrast to baseball, the offspring of cricket and rounders, and football, the offspring of soccer and rugby, basketball can boast a pure American ancestry. Characteristically American, it has been prolific with its regulations. In 1891 the game started out with one rule: no more than one step could be taken with ball in hand. In 1892 basketball had 13 rules. Last year...
...Manhattan socialite who had spent much of his life in Paris, was taking photographs and sending articles from Spain to Newsweek and The Spur. The other fatality was Ernest Richard Sheepshanks of the British Reuters News Service. A superior young British bachelor, he was once captain of the Eton cricket eleven, followed the armies of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, and won the awed admiration of Italian aviators in Salamanca by dressing for the war in a shepherd's plaid shooting jacket and ponderous suede shoes...