Word: hurdler
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Another attitude was taken by East High School's Chuck Newton, student council president and high hurdler. Newton and friends read the riot act to students who used the black market and pooled gas illegally. Some students promised to stop. But Newton's task was anything but easy. Said Chuck: "A lot of parents are sore at us for getting the kids to stop doing what parents do all the time...
Lord Burghley (rhymes with Pat Hurley), new Governor of Bermuda, ex-Olympic hurdler, got a free auto-the one the colony had bought for Governor Viscount Knollys (rhymes with Chester Bowles). The outgoing Governor, given permission by the Assembly to drive after two wartime, autoless years, had resigned before the little car arrived from England...
Next year he announced that he was "too old and too busy to continue my career as a hurdler." In 1935 he was re-elected to Parliament, became a Baldwin 30 and Chamberlain man. In 1938, supporting Munich, he said: Britain should be "big enough to be above a mud-slinging match." In Bermuda nighttime Hamilton will be a sight for Lord Burghley to see. Its blacked-out, coral streets are packed with residents, visitors, soldiers. & sailors on shore leave. There is practically no civilian automobile traffic, and crowds too big for the sidewalks mill into the streets. Hotspots serve...
...Great Circle. Even among airline men there are a few who still see no prospect of the air-navigated world en visioned by Billy Mitchell. They are astride a fence that airmen like Harold George have long ago taken in a hurdler's stride...
...strong wind prevented them from recording good times, but still the Crimson trackmen succeeded in scoring a 71 to 55 triumph in a meet at Exeter Saturday. Despite its good showing, the Red and Gray was handicapped by the absence of co-captain Bob Gill, high jumper and hurdler...