Word: forester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suzanne Lenglen's entourage. It was his job to run out on the tennis court with smelling-salts when she felt indisposed. The last time he left the U. S., in 1932, he had just lost to Ellsworth Vines in the finals of the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills. He denounced tournament, courts, officials, vowed never to come back. Last week Cochet broke his vow when he and stubby little Martin Plaa, for five years trainer of French Davis Cup teams, started a five-week tour of professional exhibition matches with William Tatem Tilden II and Ellsworth Vines...
What Professor Schumpeter has done for the Economics Department has been to lead it forth from the forest of conceptual windmills and scarecrows in which it has been wandering fruitless- ly ever since the turn of the century Now, at least a substantial portion of the department has been made to understand the necessarily realistic implications of the Conservative View by a man who sees them not in the cheap syllogisms of an Economics A, but in the suffering and starvation of a once flourishing empire strangled culturally and economically by the forces of revolution...
...Sabbath, an offense not half so shocking to Wrestling Bradford as the fact that Marigold intended to marry Sir Gower Lackland (Tenor Edward Johnson). The wedding was half over when Wrestling strode grimly in, leading his Puritan fanatics. Sir Gower was killed, Marigold arrested. Wrestling fell asleep in the forest to dream of the fiery netherworld, of dancers with slippery hips, of Marigold for whom he signs the devil's book, has the devil's mark seered into his forehead...
Died. Edward Jackson Brundage, 64, Republican politician, twice Attorney General of Illinois; by his own hand (pistol); in his Lake Forest home. As Attorney General he prosecuted Governor Len Small for embezzlement, pushed the civil suit so inexorably after the Governor was acquitted that Small settled for $650,000 in 1926. Brundage killed himself shortly before a trial of 18 defendants for racketeering, in which he was to have been No. 1 prosecution witness...
...Chicago, at her greystone Lake Shore Drive palace and in Lake Forest, Ill. at her country home, Villa Turicum, the rest of Mrs. McCormick's private belongings were to go on sale next week. Auction gapers in Chicago were discouraged by a $10 admission fee, redeemable on the first purchase...