Word: danae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squash team defeated the Lincoln's Inn Whites last night four to one. Scoring three victories and winning one match by default the Crimson racquetmen were prevented from making a clean sweep by D. D. Holmes who defeated R. H. Shaw. Other results were C. S. Oakman defeated F. Dana, H. Dekruif defeated J. C. Vance, R. H. Staples defeated J. W. Barclay and P. F. Cunningham won by default from...
...Filene's. Promptly Filene's charged the Guild with conspiracy in restraint of trade, took the matter to court with the backing of other "red-carded" stores and the potent National Retail Dry Goods Association. Confirmed last week were the findings of Special Master Ripley Dana that...
...Yardlings captured five first places out of the eight events. Besides Kendall's twin victories, the 220-yard relay team of Bayard, Dillingham, Edwin Goldwasser, Bob Urquhart, and Fred Griffen, Eric Cutler in the 200-yard free style, and George Dana in the dive turned in victories for the Crimson...
...played 123 holes three under par and groaned about his putting. One-time Champions Tommy Armour, Paul Runyan and Gene Sarazen were all put out the same morning and the defending champion, Johnny Revolta, was beaten in the afternoon. Jimmy Thomson, famed as the husband of onetime Cinemactress Viola Dana and the longest driver in golf, wore the same green socks every day, washing them himself at night. His conviction that they brought him luck was not contradicted by victories over Henry Picard, Harold McSpaden, Craig Wood. Wild Bill Melhorn appeared with a putter that had a head like...
Died. David ("Winkle") Brooks, 26, son-in-law of Vice President James Andrew Moffett of Standard Oil of California, nephew of Lady Astor and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson; when he fell from a window of his Park Avenue apartment; in Manhattan. His wife's mother, Mrs. Adelaide Taft McMichael Moffett, died two years ago in the same...