Word: hopscotches
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...Brattle Hall yesterday afternoon, Oswald Twittleberg '38 hopped to a thrilling one-lap victory to win the all-collegiate hopscotch championship of New England. Because this is the second consecutive year that the Crimson hoppers have won the meet, a petition is being circulated demanding that hop-scotch be made a major sport...
...quiet activity of Pan American Airways and the large domestic airlines, whose engineers fly thousands of miles a day trying out the same apparatus Miss Earhart uses and recording a mass of data under all sorts of conditions she cannot duplicate. No revolutionary invention will be tested on the hopscotch trip; what aviation may gain are the observations one woman in a large plane can jot down when she is not piloting, navigating, or working the radio. Since Miss Earhart started the flight on every front-page in the country, any accident to the equipment will also be described there...
With his sweetly reasonable recapitulation of past arguments last Tuesday night, President Roosevelt continued his game of political hopscotch, blithely hopping over the squares in which the enemy counters were lying, but trying to give the impression of having touched on them in flight. It was a pretty demonstration of mental agility, but as logic it just can't keep its balance...
...rounds of diplomatic hopscotch with French Premier Pierre Laval and one round with Italian Premier Benito Musso- Mussolini?both of sturdiest peasant stock? profoundly wilted and discouraged last week fashionable young Captain Anthony Eden of the British Foreign Office who is fairly popping with blue blood...
Wombat. Near Sydney, Australia, a captive wombat,* the property of one Timothy Sermon, was chained to a post for the entertainment of visitors to Timothy Sermon's ranch. A lanky, nervous creature, this sly marsupial† spent his days in a hopscotch circular gallop, his nights in forlorn and ridiculous nightmares, or wild nostalgic visions. Last week, Timothy Sermon found his wombat, covered with dirt and excrement, his thin sensitive nose pushed far into the yellow loam, a suicide...