Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are 10,000,000 bowlers in the U. S. A contributing factor to their enthusiasm is the fact that bowling, like golf, is a solo game. A dub and an expert may bowl together and still have fun, for each is competing against his own score: trying to break 200 (upward) as a golfer tries to break 100 (downward). A bowler who averages 190 is good, one who averages 220 is exceptionally good, one who bowls 300 (a perfect game) gets his picture in the papers...
...pounds of smelt annually. Softspoken, bespectacled William J. Duchaine, managing editor of the Escanaba Daily Press and the town's unofficial pressagent, sniffed a chance for the town to recoup its losses in local mining and lumbering declines. Having initiated Escanabans to profit-making outdoor fun with logrolling contests, deer hunters' powwows, he sold the town its first smelt jamboree in 1935. Scooping smelt from streams has never concerned him as much as scooping up tourists. Wryly he says: "It has not yet been determined whether smelt in the Great Lakes are a curse or a blessing...
Being expelled or being placed on probation for a long period is no fun. It is even less fun to be hit over the head with a night stick or to suffer the effects of gas. It is not part of a college education, not even an extra-curricular part...
Before she does. Storm in a Teacup manages to stick a few thistles on the shiny seat of British statesmanship, has its fun at the expense of bench & bar, gives a friendly, honest picture of Scottish life. That the story is as purely Scottish as haggis or brose is the doing of Playwright Tames Bridie, who a year ago took a Highland fling at Bruno Frank's German Sturm im Wasserglas, turned it into a Barrie-like play...
Bostonians who found Peter and the Wolf lots of fun were not alone in not knowing when to applaud music by contemporary Russians. Two years ago, Soviet Russia officially banned "Leftist" tendencies in music and art, held up James Joyce's polyperverse novel Ulysses, "written in English that can hardly be understood by Englishmen," as a celebrated example. Two years before that, Nazi Germany had banned exactly the same types of modernistic art as kulturbolschewistisch...