Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, May 10, scoops the bookies, tipsters, touts and scratch-sheets by picking the Derby one, two, three, and cinching it with pictures on the front page! Of course there might have been some question about what time of day to start that "clockwise" business, but I figure a guy could stay in coffee and cakes with nothing but piker bets to "show" as long as TIME was picking them...
...last notes of a last Harvard song sweep out over the mass of pelicans, and with Yard cops bating their breaths a herd of students burst down the steps. There are a few cries of "Rinchart", the sound of moving bodies, and edging among the audience. The guy with a girl grabs here arm and carefully threads a path towards the gate. One hand lets fall a program, announcing a selection of songs that the Harvard Glee Club will sing to a species of people whom the Vagabond will watch as they watch him, this evening at seven o'clock...
...revolt against his domination when, in April 1934, President Roosevelt got back from his Southern fishing jaunt. Yet 30 Senators and 200 Representatives were at the station with a band to greet him. To them he then addressed, in grim good humor, his famed "tough guy" speech: "I have come back with all sorts of new lessons which I learned from barracuda and sharks . . . etc., etc." (TIME, April 23, 1934). Within a few days the revolt was over and Congress settled down to whip through the President's long list of "must" legislation...
...Federal Court in Newark, N. J. last week District Judge Guy Leverne Fake denied the Madison Square Garden Corp.'s plea for a temporary injunction to stop the scheduled heavyweight prize fight between Champion James Braddock and Challenger Joe Louis in Chicago on June 22. The court ruled that the Garden's contract with Braddock "places an unreasonable restraint upon his liberty." For the benefit of fight fans who want to keep up with the heavyweight legal tangle, the New York Times's versatile Sportswriter John Kieran submitted this brief at week...
...best-known younger artists in the U. S. were represented. First prize ($2,000) went to Edward Hopper for one of his familiar old houses, painted in the sharp yellow light of a Cape Cod afternoon. Second prize ($1,500) and a silver medal went to Painter-Critic Guy Pène du Bois for a solidly painted young girl, stiffly upright in a chair. Pennsylvania Academy Instructor Francis Speight took the third prize for a farm woman collecting her mail. Critics found little of outstanding importance in the show, but uniformly praised the general excellence of the work. None...