Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warmed up while running from the locker room to the starting line, and then, running all by himself, proceeded to cover the 3.3-mile course in 18 minutes and 30 seconds...
After seven years of trying, Althea Gibson has yet to win the national singles title. As a Negro, she is still only a tolerated stranger in Forest Hills locker rooms, still has no official standing in the U.S.L.T.A. But now none of that matters. For that Gibson girl has finally whipped the one opponent that could keep her down: her own self-doubt and defensive truculence. At 30, an age when most athletes have eased over to the far slope of their careers, Althea has begun the last, steep climb...
...second semester of 1930-31; Russian sociologist Pitrim A. Sorokin, now director of the Institute for Creative Altruism, was appointed to head the Committee on Sociology and Social Ethics; 90 men were arrested in a mass subway riot; and the charred plot of ground on Soldiers Field where the locker building had stood before the January 14 fire, was being prepared for the new Dillon Field House, designed by the omnipresent Messrs. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott...
...heeled elder statesman and occasional philosopher-he has been known to compare Happy Knoll to the Baths of Caracalla. For all its outward bonhomie, the Horlick-Magill correspondence chronicles a perpetual crisis -settling foundations, unsettled bar bills, membership raids from the wily rival club, Hard Hollow, and fights between locker room cliques (the change-shoes-and-leave set v. the shower-and-have-a-few-drinks faction). With no trouble at all the sociology-minded will be able to find in Happy Knoll a microcosm of American society. The women are aggrievedly aggressive; the young are unruly and pampered...
...Their camaraderie is real and appealing, as is their occasional touch of middle-aged resignation (sometimes known as wisdom). Marquand suggests that the country club is an oasis of sanity shut away "from a few of the more unpleasant realities that surround us." With its parking spaces achoke, its locker rooms asweat, its bars awash, and a loyal barkeep resolutely giving the little woman at the end of the telephone the wrong answer as to her husband's whereabouts, the U.S. country club may just possibly be the American's castle-and in its way no less impressive...