Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that "kibitzer'' is a "Yiddish colloquial term." Kibitz or Kiebitz is the German name for peewit or lapwing. This bird has the reputation of warning other birds at the approach of hunters. Hence its application to spectators who make nuisances of themselves at card games. . . . English-speaking Davenport skat players have used the terms to "kibitz," "kibitzing," and "kibitzer" to my knowledge for over 30 years just as they use other German technical terms necessary in playing skat...
GEORGE BRAUNLICH Davenport, Iowa...
...These young posts hover over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an unholy delight in the inconsistencies they see taking shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with a large, ornate Gothic tower, as if the Woolworth Building had ambled down Broadway and climbed...
...Broida '32 and Robert Inglis '33, seeded seventh and eighth respectively already eliminated, the Singles A division of the University fall tennis tournament which started on October 5 is approaching the quarter final round. G. H. Hartford '34, unseeded, has gained the quarter finals along with S. E. Davenport '34, D. M. Frame and W. C. Thompson...
...entered in the Singles A tournament there were only eight seeded players, who are as follows: 1. Coggeshall, 2. Edward Yeomans, 3. Frame, 4. Barnaby, 5. Thompson, 6. S. E. Davenport, 7. Robert Inglis, '33, and 8. F. B. Broida...