Word: game
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boss, I tells you what I thinks about this here war. Germany, some back, she starts a crap game, threw an eight, then falls off. Now she wants her money back and starts grabbing. The mistake was when she first started grabbing not knocking...
...this they had the aid of the Senate's No. 1 Realist, Vice President John Nance Garner. At about ball-game time each day the Senate sits he bowlegs his way through tall swing-doors to survey the chamber scene-fresh unlit cigar in hand, little Neon-blue eyes flickering, his back-hair ruffled from his after-lunch nap. Reality always enters a room with John Garner, and last week his impatience with empty gabble, his dislike of oratorical set-pieces, brought the high-flown debate down to earth...
Sportsman Heilner's opus may prove as valuable a handbook for duck hunters as his Salt Water Fishing has been for big-game anglers. Packed between its covers-in addition to his memoirs and 150 pages of photographs-are: a guide for identification of 58 species of ducks and geese; a treatise on sun spots and their influence on the abundance of waterfowl; maps of the North American fly ways; statistics on the speed of birds; a chapter on U. S. duck clubs, ranging from the commercial clubs (no more private than a night club) to the exclusive groups...
...prodigious worker, Bill Cunningham does his column every day, for Sunday produces six columns on Saturday's football game. On Sunday too he writes a full-length feature story about any subject that comes into his head. An average day brings him 70 letters, and all of them get answered anywhere from a week to a couple of months later. In his 17 years with the Post he has never taken a vacation...
...Stefansson. On the way, his wife handed him some sheets of paper. It was the interview, taken down in shorthand behind the explorer's back. Bill had not known his wife could take shorthand, because he had never met her (except for a few minutes before a football game) until the day they were married. He had called her by long-distance telephone at her home in Attleboro, Mass., to transact some other business, ended by asking her to marry him. As for the interview, Stefansson later wrote Bill a letter and said it was the greatest piece...