Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanatory booklet annually published by the H.A.A. which will appear shortly, three important changes have been made. Most prominent of these is the series of new regulations brought about by the closing of the Hemenway Gymnasium as an economy measure...
...afternoon in the 25? seats chorused: "Yellow dog La-Guardia! Yellow dog LaGuardia!" Three nights later the Stadium offered a novelty -the first of eight pairs of operas, with scenery and Metropolitan singers. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer as Saint-Saens' Dalila gesticulated as if she were suspended from invisible gymnasium rings, sang in a pleasantly intimate voice. Tenor Paul Althouse was Samson. Conducting was Russian-born Alexander Smallens of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who between acts bathed in a tin tub he brought with...
Cinemactress Mae West: "I am really a rather narrow-minded woman. When my brother was running around with a woman who drank I was worried to death and got him interested in a gymnasium and other things. I do not drink or smoke. I do not go to Hollywood parties. . . . Sometimes I work so hard that I fall asleep at dinner...
...last October by Secretary Ickes. Construction of the building will provide some 2.000 man-months of labor for Homesteaders, and on completion the plant will give permanent employment to some 150.* Eventually the Government's No. 1 social laboratory will have a library, a lake, a pool, a gymnasium and a recreation centre...
...part of the H.A.A.'s economy program the proposal to close Hemenway Gymnasium next year was officially approved yesterday by a vote of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. Closing the building is expected to save the H.A.A. a large part of the present $11,000 expenditure per year...