Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many offspring. Most impolite child is pool, which well-meaning persons have tried to dignify by calling it pocket billiards, publicizing it as a family game, rigging up modernistic equipment. Fortnight ago, when the world's championship opened on the Roof Garden of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, the players maneuvered stiffly in dinner jackets before a sparkling audience on tiers of blue & gold seats, longed vainly for spittoons and overhead counters. A preopening shot was more reminiscent of the squalling & brawling of the corner pool parlor. Titleholder Ponzi refused to play unless paid a $1,000 bonus, sought...
...Early one morning last week fire engines clanged down Pennsylvania Avenue to the new $10,000,000 Post Office Building. In a huge windowless room on the sixth floor of the building a fire had started among old files. Unable to attack it properly through the one door of the room, firemen chopped holes through the eight-inch concrete ceiling, poured in water which cascaded down to the lower floors, ruined the paneling in Postmaster General Farley's swank reception room. Washington firefighters, some 40 of whom were overcome by smoke, were bitter because they have...
Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania...
...made front-page news day after day, week after week. The "corpus"which one woman sought from the other was that of a 15-week-old baby whom both claimed to have borne. It had taken three weeks for Commissioner Limbaugh to hear their tales. Plaintiff Anna Ware, broadfaced Pennsylvania servant girl, said she had been working for a couple in Newtown, Pa. when the man of the house got her into trouble. His wife sent her to St. Louis where the wife's mother was a midwife. In her house Anna said she bore her baby...
...products that have not yet entered interstate commerce. With all this friendly but contradictory advice already before them in briefs, the nine Justices this week entered their courtroom to hear what was still to be said. The great columned chamber was jammed with notables. Down in front sat Pennsylvania's George Wharton Pepper, counsel for Hoosac Mills, with his client, Mr. Butler, beside him. Farther back sat Mrs. Pepper with an admiring eye on her frock-coated husband. On hand for the fun was Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman. Senator Costigan of Colorado had to stand. Down in front...