Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...denouncing "theatrical advertising in which the sentiment of womanhood Was outrageously exploited for the sake of the Ziegfelds." A group of chorus girls from Ziegfeld's Louie the 14th had danced "the Charleston" on the steps of the City Hall in Manhattan in the interests of a recruiting drive for the U. S. Army...
...basis of Great Britain's settlement and any modifications must be based on proven incapacity of Italy to pay. Mario Alberti, Italian expert, replied that Italy was the only nation in Europe which was now spending less for military purposes than before the War; that higher taxation would drive capital out of Italy; that, allowing Italy a standard of living only half that of the U. S., taxation is now six times as oppressive there as here -and that consequently Italy must be treated more leniently than England. Mr. Mellon evidently demanded detailed proof of these assertions...
...Tilden II played against a protégé of his, slender A. H. Chapin Jr., for the Nassau Challenge Cup. Protégé Chapin took four games in the first set. Then Tilden, remembering that youth will be served, began to serve cannonballs, to cut, chop, drive, until many thought that Chapin would cripple himself in his wild nourishes at mocking tennis balls. Tilden won the next 15 games, the match...
...Cambridge rotorists managed, with a 12-mile breeze, to proceed at 3 knots an hour. They estimated that whereas a 10 horsepower engine would have been needed to drive their craft 6 miles an hour by propeller, the rotor and a 15-mile wind would take them 7 miles an hour with an exertion, from the put-put-put-ing motor that turned the rotor, of 1½ horsepower...
Trans-Mississippi (amateur). At Omaha, Trans-Mississippi Champion James Manion, St. Louis, teed his ball on the first tee at the Omaha Field Club. His fellow townsman, Don Anderson, had played him to a standstill, all square in 18 holes. James Manion knocked this 19th drive clean into 36th Street, out of bounds. There went his title. Clarence Wolfe, another St. Louisan, subdued Anderson that afternoon, 2 and 1. In the final, Wolfe broke the course record with a 70. His opponent, Arthur Bartlett of Ottumwa, la., promptly countered with a 69, but lost to a fighting finish. Champion Wolfe...