Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charley Bellows and Pete Perry, relieved by Elle]y Jackson and Bill Lovering, form the defense, while George Mahoney and Nort Kidder will trade off at goal. Since this team hasn't played a game, it is difficult to know how they will perform. Suffice it to say that last year a team similarly constituted eked out a 4-3 overtime win in the annual classic...
...Congress is in session. Last week, after seven weeks of a very dull session, he decided to slip away for four or five days of fun. Against his trip was the fact that it meant postponing his recommendation for new taxes, which Congress was impatiently awaiting in order to perform its election-year duty of going home as quickly as possible. In favor of it was the fact that Secretary Morgenthau was absent attending the funeral of his mother-in-law, and the President's deep desire to be present in Cambridge when Harvard's Fly Club initiated...
There was music as there always has been when the Gianninis get together. Father Ferruccio felt that it was his turn to perform, stoutly sang duets with his celebrated daughter, rebuked her firmly when he considered his way better...
...this, the defendants submitted, inspired them with "confidence" in Sacha Stavisky, alias Serge Alexandre. If he now & then asked some of the defendants to perform individual crooked acts, and if some of the defendants even admitted performing these, that did not alter the submission of all the defendants that as individuals they had had no knowledge of the vast ramifications of Swindler Stavisky's crockeries but had considered him a man of substance. Stavisky was, they submitted, a "Financial Napoleon," the magnitude of whose coups and victories on the Bourse erased his peccadillos from the minds of Cabinet Ministers...
...diagnose Shirley Tapp's state, doctors and psychiatrists used various words adding up to much the same thing-"hysteria," "mental anesthesia," "self-hypnosis," "a neurotic's struggle with reality." Because the girl was able to perform the feat of holding her arms upraised for 40 minutes when an ordinary person would tire in ten, no one suggested she was faking. Not the least bit interested in what the doctors thought were the Tapps and their devout friends. They bridled when it was suggested Shirley be hospitalized. Instead, the Full Salvationists jampacked the little room which resounded with hymns...