Word: peaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest in painting until 1903. In that year he met Pierre Auguste Renoir, bought twelve paintings right off the bat and soon became a fast friend of the old painter. Before the artist died in 1919, Steelmaster Gangnat had accumulated no less than 150 paintings in the softly-modeled, peach-bloom style of Renoir's later years. After Maurice Gangnat's death in 1924, his son let all but 50 paintings go at an auction. The fineness of the 50 last week impressed the Pennsylvania Museum's severest critic, Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes of Marion...
...story written by his late mother. In this she described how Leslie, when a lad, fell into the ocean and sank a considerable distance, whereupon "a most lovely apparition with streaming hair glided toward him. She had eyes of the deepest blue. Her skin reminded him of a luscious peach. Most wondrous of all was her body. It tapered off into a slender curve, which sparkled and reflected every color...
When a gymnasium instructor at the International Y. M. C. A. College, Springfield, Mass., set his class to tossing a soccer ball through two bottomless peach baskets one winter afternoon in 1891, he had no idea he was inventing what was to become the most popular U. S. winter sport, basketball. Instructor James A. Naismith was just trying to keep his restless charges from getting bored. The class took to his pastime with such enthusiasm that the Y. M. C. A. began teaching basketball in other cities. By 1893 the game had been brought to Detroit...
...honored Dr. Naismith, now 76, with a banquet at which the original 1893 players, who 32 years ago organized into teams representing Adams "Y" and the Detroit Athletic Club, stuffed themselves with chicken. Afterwards the two teams, refereed by Inventor Naismith, played basketball as it was when baskets were peach baskets. Shoving and tackling under the original catch-as-catch-can rules, the hearty players (the oldest was 61, the youngest 53) battled for all they were worth. When the game was over the score was 2-to-2. Unanimously the players decided to postpone the overtime period until...
...whole flock of scholarships. What I'm coming to is where does my son Pete come in? I naturally want him to go to Harvard and follow in my footsteps in the higher income brackets. Are you going to exclude him? I hope not, because he's really a peach. I remain, R. Van Revaler...