Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society, set out to advertise their pastime. Chosen president was Philip Morgan ("Phil") Plant, onetime Manhattan playboy and second husband of Constance Bennett, who settled down few years ago to breed bantams and pheasants on his 2,000-acre farm in Waterford, Conn. Vice President was Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck. Last week the Society had some 100 members, exhibited 41 pairs of birds...
...Hollywood, cross-eyed Comedian Ben Turpin, 62, bemoaned his idleness, exclaimed: "I'd be terrific as a studio gatekeeper. Imagine-the only guy in the business who could see 'em coming and going...
...Bricklayer A. D. ("Joker") White set out to beat the record of Cleveland's Dr. Thomas H. B. Staggers who had balanced 4,200 matches on the mouth of a beer bottle. "Joker" White successfully stacked up a record 5,400, announced modestly: "I just built 'em up like I'd put up a brick wall...
...Redwood City, Calif., where he is wintering, Infielder Tony ("Poosh 'em up") Lazzeri of the New York Yankees filed suit for divorce, declared his wife Maye "no longer loved him," few hours later called the suit "all a big mistake...
George J. Peak, Winchester, Ill. horse breeder: "A horse is like a child. He will take advantage of a person who handles him in an uncertain manner. You can control him better if you are unafraid." Conceding the point for domestic creatures, Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck declared: "As a rule, 'man-smell' will make a wild animal run as fast...