Word: hurst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first soccer game played against a German team since the War; at Colombes Stadium, Paris, when a German player inadvertently kicked into his own net the only goal of the day. C. Alike, untouted racehorse owned by Richard K. Mellon (nephew): by five lengths, a four-mile steeplechase at Hurst Park, England, from an impressive field of other entries in next week's Grand National at Aintree...
...youthful, dapper Edmond M. Barr, dramatic critic and ace newshawk of the Dallas Dispatch. Reporter Barr went to jail rather than break journalism's proud rule: Never expose your pipelines. Reporter Barr wrote for his paper of how two Communist organizers, C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, were taken from the city hall steps (immediately after their release from jail) by 14 kidnappers, allegedly Klansmen, to a secluded spot where they were flogged with ropes and left bound & bleeding. Neither victim was again heard of. Haled before District Judge Grover Adams to tell the source of his story, Reporter...
Among U. S. women who read these comments was Novelist Fannie (Humoresque) Hurst. Said...
...long lethargic American worm turn, then I am for whole lecture shiploads of visiting patronizers seeking American patronage." Charles Dickens was among the first British novelists to profit from cracking America across the face;† and, as Mr. Priestley said last week, "Dickens is still read in America." Miss Hurst, and many another U. S. citizen, pounced simultaneously on a Priestley error of fact. He had said that Americans buy but do not read books, cited as proof the fact that an English friend had found Sinclair Lewis novels in homes throughout the U. S. "uncut." As Americans know...
Novelist Priestley, after reading Miss Hurst's critique, after consulting his friend Manhattan Critic Henry Seidel Canby, beat a retreat on the ground that he had been joking, stated: "I am one of those strange Englishmen who really have a sense of humor...