Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office- "probably to count the gate receipts," jibed one old footballer. Because he was a good Hoover friend and biographer and onetime Stanford cheer leader, Will Irwin was invited to the reunion. He waved his arms excitedly while the teammates rah-rahed mildly for Stanford. Then on the lawn the players crouched in their oldtime positions and, with "Bill" Harrelson calling the half-forgotten signals at quarter, went through several phantom formations. One drop-kick sailed over the hedge and Halfback Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of the First National Bank of the City of New York, went scrambling after...
...Governor. He entered the race too late to have his name put on the ballot, could not get newspapers to print his advertisements, had to instruct voters how to vote for him by radio. But his broadcast battle cry was "Let's pasture the goats on the State House lawn!"?and he polled 188,339 votes, only 28.862 less than Successful Candidate Harry Woodring. Dr. Brinkley said he would run again in 1932. Last year readers of Radio Digest voted Station KFKB the "most popular in the world." Kansas politicians did not breathe easily until the Federal Radio Commission...
Across the half-mile of parked lawn and public buildings between the White House and the Navy League headquarters, "Admiral" Gardiner fired the first shots: Abysmal ignorance! Bigger and bloodier wars...
While tennis was spreading over the U. S. and about the world, Richard Dudley Sears, waving his thick-framed racket at Newport and on the smooth lawns of the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston, held the championship for seven years. He might have held it longer had he not hurt himself, so seriously that he was compelled to retire, by colliding with his partner during a doubles match. The injury was still noticeable, in the form of a slight limp, when Richard Dudley Sears went to Forest Hills. N. Y. last week to attend a Golden Jubilee Ceremony, the 50th...
...other onetime champions and proxies for a few, among them Maurice E. ("Comet") McLoughlin of California. Across the three stadium courts stood a small table. Behind the table stood Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams (who likes sailing better than tennis) and three members of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association...