Word: laking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Chicagoans were still chuckling over capers of another sort. Henry Field,** grandnephew of the late Marshall Field and curator of physical anthropology at the Field Museum, had given a party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken...
...Varsity and Jayvee crews leave for Princeton today in order to cram in a few practice jaunts on Lake Carnegie. The Tigers ran off with the Compton trophy for four years before being upset by the Crimson blades last season...
...matchless Rubens collection in the Ringling Art Museum at Sarasota, the barbarously gaudy architecture of Hollywood, the flowerlike flamingos in the infield at Hialeah and the old people quietly dying in their rattan chairs at St. Petersburg. Florida is bounded by the utter reality of the bean fields around Lake Okeechobee, and the utter unreality of the skyscrapers over Miami...
...Italy in the Mediterranean, which were to have been called "vital" while those of Britain were to have been called only "essential," this whole matter is covered by simply reaffirming the Italo-British Gentlemen's Agreement of Jan. 2, 1937. 4) Unexpectedly Italy mentioned Ethiopia's famed Lake Tana by name, affirmed that she will respect British interest in having this great lake remain the source of the Blue Nile, which waters the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. This was to set at rest popular British fears of several years' duration that the Italians might by gigantic blasting...
...University of Washington oarsmen: a clean sweep over the University of California crews (varsity, junior varsity, freshman) in the No. 1 regatta of the Pacific Coast; for the fourth year in a row; on Lake Washington, Seattle. For the varsity crew, U. S. and Olympic champions, it was the 19th consecutive major victory in three years...