Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard and Yale combinations have run up against several common opponents and Elis have invariably captured the palm when the results were checked up. Take the outstanding figures, those of the Toronto games. Harvard lost the first battle 3 to 2 and was handed a 6 to 2 drubbing in the second; Yale got away with a 3 to 2 overtime victory. Then the Elis laced the University Club skaters 1 to 0 and 3 to 1, whereas the Cantabridgians eked out 4 to 3 and 2 to 1 wins. The Hanover Indians have twice bitten the dust before...
...activities-as colyumist reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, editing short cinema "sportlights," editing his magazine The American Golfer, which he recently sold to publisher Condé Nast. Once a year he demonstrates his knowledge of golf by competing in the artists' and writers' championship in Palm Beach. Last week, after eliminating his fellow Nast editor, Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair, he won the tournament for the third time, beating Jefferson Machamer, Manhattan artist, 2 and 1. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, with a handicap of 35, qualified with 140 for 18 holes, then lost his first match without...
...high and low sugar lobbies. Last week Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Committee reported on their activities. They had, he said, spent jointly some $400,000 to influence tariff legislation. Declared he: "The whole scheme is nothing but simple graft. . . . People might just as well go to a palm reader or a crystal gazer as to give their money to lobbyists...
Most people in West Palm Beach, Fla., thought George W. Moore was a bootlegger. They had seen a truck backing up to his home, unloading bottles. Four U. S. Prohibition agents, with a search warrant from a U. S. commissioner, went to Moore's house one evening last week. Two approached the front door, two the rear. The search warrant was exhibited. From behind closed doors buckshot poured into the warm darkness...
...other U. S. airports of entry are at Douglas, Ariz., Nogales, Ariz., Los Angeles (two stations), San Diego, El Paso, Miami, Palm Beach, Brownsville...