Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reynolds of Asheville, who is seen oftener than any other member in the Senate gymnasium, who has been married four times in his 51 years. Generally credited with being the best actor in the Senate, Senator Reynolds last week continued unperturbed on his gregarious and convivial way about the capital, because in the kind of politics he plays, embarrassing letters cut little ice. Bob Reynolds won his first campaign in 1910 for prosecuting attorney by going into the mountains astride an old mare with two huge saddlebags stuffed with red, white & blue striped peppermint candy which he distributed to children...
...Northampton, Mass., offered for sale "The Beeches," where she and the 30th President lived after they left the White House. Some of the household furnishings she put in storage. Last week she was traveling in Europe when the residue odds & ends were put up at auction in a Northampton gymnasium. Auctioneer George Howard Bean had sent engraved circulars to about 1,500 clients, announcing that each of the 400 items of Coolidgeana offered would be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Only 400 bidders showed up for the auction. Dampened, Auctioneer Bean clambered to his dais, banged a gavel, stuck...
...Gymnasium is on Cambridge Street, across from Phillips Brooks House, and was used during 1934-35 by students in the Law School and only for restricted periods. This arrangement turned out to be an unnecessary bother, and the building has been closed this college year...
...Hemenway Gymnasium will be reopened next September for the year 1936-37 on account of the demand which has been expressed for it since it was closed to general use in June, 1934, because of budget difficulties...
Just reading the second line of the first paragraph of the article "Indiana-Purdue Deadlock" [TIME, March 16]. Quoting "To that state, flat as a huge gymnasium floor"-where do you think Indiana is? Out on the Texas Panhandle? True, we do have level areas but some of our best players come from down in them thar hills. Whoever wrote the article must have been too young to have read Abe Martin and have seen the pictures that went with it. Why, the New Deal says one-third of Indiana is so rough and hilly it should be made...