Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said he had come to inspect, in the interests of national defense, the site for a bridge which Morgantown has long desired. He also said it was an appropriate time to "do a good turn" for some of the Capital's good neighbors, and such a bridge would "open up" their section of the country. Then he added: "This bridge is one of the things that has got to be done as fast as we can possibly do it." Result: Morgantowners beamed on Candidate Lewis...
...opening round of the Men's Open, most of the gallery followed the favorite, Robert Patrick ("Pat") Ball, Chicago grocer who had won the title three times. Others with a lively following were dapper John Dendy. defending champion who works as a locker boy at North Carolina's fashionable Asheville Country Club; and Hugh Smith, a Thomastown (Ga.) office boy who recently shot a 263 in a southern tournament and was forthwith sent to the national meet by his boss (for whom he caddies weekends...
...Open record set by famed Ralph Guldahl last year...
Died. Max Factor, 61, onetime Russian Imperial Court cosmetician and wigmaker who became Hollywood's No. 1 make-up artist; of a liver and kidney ailment: in Beverly Hills. In 1935 Mr. Factor gave a $25,000 party for 10,000 people to open a $600,000 cosmetic factory "of proportions created only for royalty in the past...
Creating at Yaddo last week, at mid-season of the colony's twelfth year, was a typical group of writers and artists who have given substance to Katrina Trask's vision. But whether or not they fitted Katrina's romantic conception was an open question. By contrast with aristocratic Katrina and the elegant capitalistic surroundings she provided, most of the season's 27 guests stood out in striking left-wing contrast: Poet Kenneth Fearing (Angel Arms, Poems), Critic Newton Arvin (Hawthorne), Novelists Joseph Vogel (At Madame Bonnard's), Leonard Ehrlich (God's Angry...