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Word: leaguer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a sportsman has his pilot's license, his private plane. But not until last week could he look forward to the prospect of a day at his flying country club. Miss Ruth Rowland Nichols, Junior Leaguer of Rye, N. Y., enthusiastic amateur aviatrix with a non-stop flight from New York to Miami to her credit, shouldered the task of promoting three clubs in New York and New Jersey, forerunners of a nation-wide chain of private and exclusive country clubs devoted to aeronautical sports. Associated with Promoter Nichols are such younger capitalists as William A. Rockefeller, William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Flyers: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Tremont Theatre at 8.15--"Elmer The Great", which until a few days ago was known as "Fast Company". A good comedy of the bush leaguer who made the grade into the majors. By Ring Lardner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 6/6/1928 | See Source »

Tremont at 8.15--"Fast Company". A highly amusing comedy of the bush leaguer who got into the majors. By one who ought to know, Ring Lardner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/23/1928 | See Source »

...relief, flood costs; these are only three outstanding topics on which he has remained silent or evasive, doubtless for highly intelligent reasons but with the effect, nevertheless, of making him seem an opportunist. And this effect is borne out by his shifting position on international relations. Once a sturdy Leaguer, he is now a hesitant World Court man, and suspected by newsgatherers of trimming his helm as the breeze may blow, off-shore or overseas. With all his other qualifications, he could well afford to speak out, in simple, declarative English on one or the other side of every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Beaver-Man | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Lois Mai Fukushima, active Junior Leaguer of New Rochelle, N. Y., daughter of a Japanese father and American mother; to Charles E. Townsend, editor of the Car Card, house organ of Barren G. Collier, Inc. (advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 16, 1928 | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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