Word: game
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas rush. Bookkeeper Henry Nesbitt listed stacks of early gifts; Housekeeper Mrs. Nesbitt thumbed over the State linen, bargained with tradesmen, checked the storeroom's loaded shelves of cans and bottled goods. The cook pirouetted with dignity around the 24-foot electric stove, carefully sniffed the game rack, where hung pheasants, quail, ducks, grouse, and woodcocks waiting till they were high enough for a President's taste...
...Game Spoiled. According to the Ciano version, what really spoiled this Axis game was the overture of Neville Chamberlain to Joseph Stalin and the consequent alarm of Adolf Hitler lest he have to face an Anglo-Franco-Russian lineup. The action of the democracies, said Count Ciano, so bolstered the prestige of the Soviet Government that the Nazis had to do something about it. "If the great democracies had ignored Russia," feelingly continued Ciano, "Germany would have had well-founded motives for doing the same." Thus Britain and France were officially blamed for starting...
...Nations' expulsion of Russia (see p. 75), the Finnish delegation to the League got busy drawing up a list of needed supplies. Heading this list must be airplanes and artillery, without which Finland cannot hope to win-especially if Coach Stalin sends his first team into the game. More to keep Finland's slate clean than through any hope of success, Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner appealed to Russia's Premier V. M. Molotov by radio (the only medium by which he can address him), offering Russia "even greater concessions...
...actors (who otherwise play their roles straight) have made a game of altering their lines if the crowd beats them to the draw. Thus the villain, when led away by the police, pauses to say "Foiled!" He was almost licked one night when the crowd shouted not only "Foiled!" but "Baffled!" "Beaten!" "Frustrated!" "Outwitted!" "Trapped!" "Flummoxed!" He waited until the wits were through, then hissed: "Stymied...
...teammate), a handful of U. S. high-school kids prepared last week to do-or-die for the Lou Gehrig Cup. Emblematic of the national high-school football championship, the big, silver trophy will be awarded annually to the winner of Miami's "Health Bowl" game. Scheduled for Christmas night this year, its proceeds will be donated to the "Fight Infantile Paralysis Campaign...