Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance he is short (5 ft. 6 in.), chunky (160 lb.), with a white crest above a round, deep-lined, bespectacled face. He favors brown suits with white-braided vests. Like Coolidge, he smokes cigars in paper holders. Next to Idaho's Borah, he is the Senate's most forceful orator. No casual debater, he carefully prepares his infrequent addresses, draws a big gallery. His delivery is marked by physical violence, his whole body vibrating, his pointed finger shooting skyward. His voice is loud and clear, with words coming out like bursts from a machine gun. He sprinkles...
Fortnight ago President Bizzell obtained confessions from 14 members of the Deep Dark Mystery Club. The Board of Regents ordered them expelled. The group included four footballers, the basketball captain, last year's swimming captain, the top-ranking tennis player, a poloist, a boxer and a track man. Last week they all went back to classes on the campus...
...Oklahoma City Times and Daily Oklahoman have criticized and ridiculed Governor Murray during his campaigns and during his present administration. When the floggers of Correspondent William Stephens learned of their expulsion they went to Governor Murray for a late night conference. They agreed to disband the Deep Dark Mystery Club. Next day Governor Murray reinstated them, praised their "nobleness of spirit and good citizenship," added that he would pardon them even if they were criminally prosecuted...
Alarmed at the plight of U. S. birds whose food supply has been buried under deep snow, Audubon Society officials recently went to the Post Office Department with an idea. Last week First Assistant Postmaster General Arch Coleman announced that bird-lovers may mail cracked corn and small grain, to be scattered by rural mail carriers along their routes. Sufficient address: "Mr. & Mrs. Bird...
From the world of music came Titta Ruffo, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera; Coe Glade of the Chicago Opera; Viennese Tenor Otto Fassell; Vera Schwarz of the Berlin State Opera. Harald Kreutzberg, Martha Graham, Patricia Bowman danced. Apelike Funnyman Dr. Rockwell and Weber & Fields excited laughter. There was deep-voiced DeWolf Hopper, always willing to do "Casey at the Bat." The Wallendas, whom John Ringling found in Cuba, performed on the high wire. The Six Bronetts clowned. From radio came the successful Sisters of the Skillet. From the screen came Taylor Holmes. There were acrobats and jugglers...