Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baden-Powell, founded the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Ga. 27 years ago. There are now some 400,000 Girl Scouts in the U. S., one for every two Boy Scouts. Outside the U. S. may be found another million Girl Scouts or Girl Guides. According to The Girl Scout News Sheet, Mrs. Low was "handicapped by deafness and later by a fatal illness, by the indifference of many friends and the blindness of others," lugubriously and correctly predicted the year of her death...
...while Auburn turned in another of its whopping losses, $1,522,843. Presumably one of new President Manning's major interests will be trying to sell more Cord, Duesenberg and Auburn automobiles. On the new board of directors formed to assist in this endeavor, one name made news this week: Republic Steel's Chairman Tom Mercer Girdler...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...more irreverent members of the daily sporting press to surpass themselves in humorous abuse at the loser's expense. In the opinion of Joe Williams of the New York World-Telegram: "Sopwith is a palooka back of the wheel." "Sopwith," observed Jack Miley in the New York Daily News, "is now only three challenges and a goatee behind the late Sir Thomas Lipton...
...moving, dramatic, frankly sympathetic novel which compares well with the best examples of Russian Civil War drama released through the Soviet movie trust Amkino, is partly told in a Russian equivalent of the Irish sure-and-begorra vein of humor, partly in the vein of Duranty's best news dispatches...