Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's first woman magistrate, blanched, tried to rise, then sat stone still for 20 minutes last week when she heard five justices of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court unanimously find her guilty of judicial malfeasance and order her re- moved from office (TIME, Feb. 23 et seq.). When she was able to get up, she left the courthouse amid boos and jeers, went to visit her good friends Major & Mrs. Lloyd...
...show unusual strength and to signify that partner, regardless of the merit of his own hand, must keep the bidding open. So successful was the Culbertson system when used by average U. S. bridge players that his book outsold the bridge works of Work, Whitehead, Lenz, et al., has now sold 112,000 copies...
...contract bridge, a player inevitably supplies his partner with information as to the cards he holds by the way in which he bids. Systems-such as the Vanderbilt convention, the various methods of Lenz, Work, Whitehead, et. al.-are codified kicks under the table, designed to make bidding reveal as much information as possible. There are now so many different systems, i.e., codes of giving information, that bridge players, to avoid dispute though not confusion, are compelled to preface their sittings with protracted conferences to determine which code...
...pass into the hands of those who would devote it to cheap amusement." St. Louis. The "Muny Opera" of the Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis opened its 13th season three weeks ago. Once devoted mainly to light opera- Gilbert & Sullivan, Johann Strauss, Franz Lehar et al.-it has acquired a revolving stage, a number of onetime Shubert musical comedy singers, and last year a Shubert director, Milton I., nephew of Producers Lee & Jake (TIME, June 9. 1930). Its productions are now more in the Broadway manner than in that of the Savoy or the Strauss-Theater (see below...
...friend for violating the anti-evolution law and thus force a test of the question. Arm in arm they left the drugstore with a plan which was, in a few weeks, to develop into one of the most amazing trials in U. S. history (TIME, May 18, 1925 et...