Word: hops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Savoy Dancehall for black men and women, a white man with a thinker's head and closecropped grey hair, last week spun his partner away, came walking toward her, flattened palms forward in the gesture of pushing as his shoulders twitched in the dance called the Lindy Hop. It was Architect Fuller, fifth generation in a line of Harvard men, onetime class drunkard, twice expelled from Harvard, greatnephew of Emerson's friend Margaret Fuller, Wartime U. S. Navy lieutenant, engineer, a prophet of civilization...
...Hop, Step & Jump. Light on their feet and much given to eccentric motions of the body, the Japanese naturally excel in such oddities as hopping and skipping. Mikio Oda was champion in 1928. Little Chuhei Nambu, taped at the ankles and limping from his exertions in the broad jump, won again last week with a new world's record of 51 ft., 7 in. while Sol ("Happy") Furth, U. S. hopper who crossed the U. S. twice to compete in the Olympics, finished sixth. In Tokyo, street bands played the national anthem "Kimigayo...
...Winner of third place on the hop, step & jump team at the final U. S. trials in Palo Alto last fortnight was Levi Casey of the Los Angeles A. C. Last week the American Olympic Committee barred Hopper Casey from the U. S. team for "reasons best known to the Olympic Committee and the athlete himself." In his place they chose Sol ("Happy") Furth, hop, step & jumper of the Millrose A. C. On his way home to Gardiner, Maine, happy Hopper Furth did not learn of his selection till he arrived. He wired the Olympic Committee for funds, promptly started...
...offering company was Fidelio Brewery, Inc., of Manhattan. The offer was made by Bauer, Pogue & Co., and consisted of 500,000 $1 par shares at $2. Fidelio started in 1852 as H. Koehler & Co., ale-brewers. It was later bought by Samuel Goldberger, Bohemian hop tycoon. His son, Norman S. Goldberger, is president of the company now, having worked in it since he was graduated from Columbia in 1904. Many of the other employes are working in positions once held by their fathers, including a brewmaster whose father mixed Fidelio's brews from...
...Pilot Arthur Bussey of Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, advertised last week for four passengers to Europe in his trimotored Ford. The plane will hop via Harbor Grace, Newfoundland as soon as the four fares are booked. No publicity hunter himself, Pilot Bussey announced that he had received 40 inquiries from curioseekers, few genuine prospects...