Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt, who rode fast & free in Massachusetts, was opposed in Pennsylvania by Colonel Henry Breckinridge of Manhattan, Lindbergh lawyer and onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, who has offered himself as a rallying post for anti-New Deal Democrats. Preliminary result: Roosevelt, 800,000; Breckinridge...
...English language today: in what he calls conservative figures, 174,000,000 people speak it as their native tongue and another 17,000,000 speak it besides their own. Nearest world-competitor is Spanish, with a little more than half as many. And "no other language is spreading so fast or into such remote areas." English looks like the lingua franca of the future, but probably not in its present form. What will it look like? Says Mencken: it may look like English, but it will sound like American...
Fencers Hugh V. Alessandroni and Norman C. Armitage starred on Columbia University's 1928 team, have since pushed steadily to the top. A stocky left-hander who moves surprisingly fast for his build, Alessandroni won the foils title in 1934, was runner-up last year. Tied for first place with the defending champion, Joseph L. Levis, and the national three-weapon champion, John R. Huffman, he made spectacular use of the parry-riposte, beat them both in a triple fence-off last week. Tall, willowy Norman Armitage, who sports a little waxed mustache, had little difficulty in taking...
...Challenger dining car will serve break fast for 25?, lunch for 30?, dinner for 35?. Between meals the diner, hitherto the private preserve of the chief steward and his waiters, may be used as a club car for games and drinks...
Praised by the late Knute Rockne as the "ideal quarterback," Stuhldreher became head football coach at Villanova after graduation in 1925, turned out hard-playing, fast-moving teams which in eleven years won 66 games, lost 25, tied nine. Two of the teams which his new charges have to face next autumn are Notre Dame, piloted by Elmer Layden, another of the Four Horsemen, and Purdue, coached by Noble Kizer, who played guard on that same famed eleven...