Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since that day tennis has made out of many a young player just what Mr. Hardy howled about. Few top-notch tennis amateurs have the time or inclination to get a full-time job nowadays. While the players of the pre-Tilden era were content with a summer junket to swank Eastern tournaments (and a trip abroad if they were very, very good), most of the present top-notch racketeers have to play tennis nine months out of the year, to keep up with the field...
Before its Harlem junket, last week's congress had its fill of erudition. The musicologists, whose line is musical research as opposed to musical performance, heard such typical papers as The So-Called Babylonian Notation, Mozart's Handwriting and the Creative Process, The Evolution of Javanese Tone-Systems. Delegates from France and Germany were kept away by the war, and the musicologists soberly discussed probable hindrance of their work elsewhere, applauded a message from French Novelist-Musician Romain Rolland: "In the field of art, there is not . . . any rivalry among nations. The only combat worthy...
...George ("Geordie") Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland, big-gaming, yachting, land-rich peer, who abandoned a Kodiak bear-hunting junket, headed his yacht Sans Peur (Without Fear) toward home and war service...
...handsome 51-year-old bachelor from Atlanta. His friends call him a "terrific salesman." It was in that role, nine years ago, that Mr. Rose organized his first traveling educational institution, and by 1938 it was something of a success. If not typical, that year's junket was at least interesting. Into ten Chevrolet trucks piled 198 youngsters, 33 camp counsellors, a great deal of baggage, a doctor and a trained nurse. In Promoter Rose's sock was $9,000 (of which he appropriated $1,100) contributed by parents as spending money for their offspring. For the trip...
...Oslo, New York's ham-handed Representative Ham Fish, four Senators and 24 Representatives were last week spending $10,000 in the only big Congressional junket of the year, the annual trip to the meeting of the Interparliamentary Union. Still happily present in Mr. Fish's memory was his coup of last January, when he and 50 Republicans outsmarted bumbling Leader Alben Barkley, ousted him from his plushy post as head junketeer to the Union sessions (TIME, Jan. 30). But Mr. Fish also found a little sour milk in his junket. Before he sailed for Oslo, he confidently...