Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...testified at an inquest that Dancer Cote, vexed by newspaper criticism of the lions' lethargy, had sewed a large bolt in the hem of her veil, presumably thumped George's snout with it. The troupe's manager. Eddie Pierce, announced that blameless George would continue to perform in the act, that three girls had already applied to replace Gladys Cote as his bride...
John C. Develin '38 will put on a judging act and Edwin A. Barnes, Jr. '37 will perform a few magician's tricks...
...purpose, I gave him shorts and the ability to turn around. I dare say that he is not the first time the nude has been used in the political cartoon and probably it will not be the last. The cartoonist takes materials and symbols and makes them perform for the expression of his ideas if he has any. I've found this figure useful to express what is both the policy of my paper and my own ideas and such as he is he is my own. Would that he were worthier of the very flattering tribute he received...
...football crowd the East ever saw (102,000) packed Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium to watch Army v. Navy. Navy tacklers piled into Army's scrawny little star, Monk Meyer. Army linemen saw to it that Navy's ace dropkicker, Bill Ingram, never got where he could perform his specialty. Late in the last quarter, the break of the game came when, climaxing a Navy march of 50 yards, Ingram passed to Fike and Army's Sullivan, trying to abort what looked like a touchdown, spoiled the play by bowling into Fike. The field judge ruled interference...
...these three phenomena show a close correlation with sunspot activity and particularly with the passage of an active sunspot group across the central area of the sun's disc; the aurorae, borealis and australis, perform beautifully, magnetic compasses oscillate to and fro over a small amplitude centered at their normal position, and long distance radio reception is either improved or hampered. In connection with the last of these it should be said that whether reception is improved or hampered depends upon the wavelength of the signals and other factors related to radio transmission. The assumed validity of a correlation...