Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME would gladly restore to Kentucky the dignity of its Junior Senator; were that not a service which the Senate itself is so certain to perform...
Last week Jim and Susie decided to get married. For altar they chose a well beside a tree in a nudist colony near Elsinore, Calif. To perform the ceremony they chose Rev. Clarke Irvine of the Temple of Nature Church. For their attendants they chose James Mack as best man, Constance Alien as maid-of-honor. For wedding clothes they chose nothing...
Stirred to speedy action by the possibility of a meet with M.I.T. on Friday, Coach Harold Ulen and his Varsity proteges have set to work putting together a team that will perform creditably in the opening brushes. No definite arrangements for the Tech meet have been made but it is highly probable that the natators will open against the local outfit rather than wait for Bowdoin a week later...
...There is no shot in golf that can be classed as the most difficult one. Each shot takes as much dexterity and skill to perform correctly as the one before it, or the one succeeding it. The average golfer is inclined to neglect his putting, being of the opinion that it is the long shots that are important. This, however, is a fallacy. Many a championship has been won or lost on the putting green; it is there that coolness and iron nerves are necessary...
...given continuous demonstrations of Mrs. Roosevelt in all these capacities by this week when the time came for her to function formally as First Lady, at the opening of Washington's social season. U. S. women of all ranks and ages were waiting to see how she would perform as hostess of the White House. That Washington's fifth Depression winter would lack Taftian social glitter was to be expected. But busy Mrs. Roosevelt announced two innovations calculated to strip the season's social functions to the bare bone of practicality...