Word: oak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tubby Tenor Jagel caught a plane, flew 700-odd miles to Chicago's Municipal Airport, drove into the Loop behind police escort, trotted perspiring into the opera house, squirmed into a costume, bobbed on stage half-an-hour late, stumbled on a mossy step beside the Druids' oak, lost a shoe...
...other eminences are better marked: his Oak Park high school football teams, 1910 to the first public exhibits of his own paintings in and 1913; the days of "Red" Grange at Illinois finally the present gridiron season, because it 25th consecutive year as Illinois coach. On this anniversary, he looks back on a record of seven. Ten championships in 16 years. At the easel, he earned distinction for his spontaneous, bold, pastels and oils...
...Actress Gertrude Lawrence. It still smells of lilac, a perfume so much liked by Mrs. Bedaux that she has quarts of it always handy, ready to be sprayed about the rooms. On the 53rd floor of the Chrysler Building, Mr. Bedaux's office is done in weathered oak with a medieval monastery effect. According to Manhattan's World-Telegram this week, Mrs. Bedaux has said, "If Charles had horns he would be the Devil," and she used to appear sometimes at parties he gave in Greenwich Village in an apartment he leased under an assumed name, transforming...
...politicians or cutthroat competition, but censorship. Religious, racial, political, economic groups keep an eagle eye on schoolbooks, are quick to howl at what they consider irregularities. After Gary's School Superintendent William Wirt in 1934 charged that New Deal Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers. There are fighting words, especially in the South, that a textbook dare...
Fredericksburg, Va., is the place where George Washington is supposed to have tossed a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River. On a drizzly day last week, 7,000 people and 642 dogs from Washington, Richmond, and the surrounding countryside gathered under the 400-year-old oak trees in Fredericksburg's city park for the 239th renewal of Fredericksburg's famed dog mart. According to tradition it; was founded to pacify warring Indians who had no need of the usual peace offerings of beads, muskets or rum, but who coveted the colonists' fine dogs. It has evolved into...