Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schlumbohm, 50, a large (225 lbs.), hearty man with a bellowing laugh, has worked out 1,000 inventions. Last week he was fondling two newborn brain children: the Tubadipdrip, a combination coffeemaker-teamaker and cocktail mixer, and the Tempot, a combination fireless cooker-ice cream freezer-frozen food locker-foot bath-thermos chest-dishwasher-air conditioner and bachelor's chef. They will probably make their way without trouble in the commercial world, just like Dr. Schlumbohm's (rhymes with slum bum) other oddly named gadgets. Some of them...
...importance of the game. The postwar crop of athletes, as it would appear from reports from other parts of the nation, no longer is willing to shed that last drop of blood in the Homecoming Battle, preferring to eke out a successful record for their team week by week. Locker-room strife at Indiana and Ohio State has been laid to just such indifference of the local "Yale" rivalries. The fact that Dick Harlow, working with much the same type of ex-servicemen, could maintain his team's morale, ignite it to the levels of Saturday's inspired first period...
...Rome, where burglars now flourish. He has to carry about 30 of them: keys to the door of his house, the pantry, dispensary, clothes closet, private desk, passenger elevator; to the door of his office building, his office door, the third intermediate door ; to his typewriter, office desk, locker. Cigarets have to be kept in doubly-locked separate chests, and the jeep has to be locked six ways from breakfast, involving keys to the steering wheel, ignition, hood, spare tire, gas tank and tool locker...
Died. Thomas ("Tom") Pettitt, 86, British-born, mustachioed grand old man of court tennis; in Newport, R. I. A onetime locker-boy for the first U.S. court-tennis court (in Boston), he taught himself the ancient, highly specialized game (played in large, complicated, enclosed courts, with pear-shaped racquets and complex rules), revolutionized classic court style with his smashing drives ("When I get a fair sight of the ball, I hit it, and I hit it damned hard"). Tom Pettitt made both court-tennis history and legend, in his heyday was reputed to have defeated many an opponent while using...
...truncheon was standard equipment on a muddy gridiron, football was the sport of gentlemen-mastodons with handlebar mops hanging over their snarling lips. Slipping out of their four-button sack coats, doffing their celluloid collars, and carefully folding their string-ties, an aggregation would roar out of a gaslit locker-room to pull every play in the book, and some still in manuscript. Grabbing moustaches was worth a slight penalty, but the pile-on, the straight-arm, and an occasional sapping with a clenched fist were all "part of the game." For eleven such people--and for the age that...