Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only since 1863 has Thanksgiving had a consistent year-to-year day, but football coaches were furious: 30% of them had games scheduled Nov. 30 which would now play to ordinary weekday crowds. Calendar-makers took the blow quietly except for Elliott-Greer Stationery Co. of Amarillo, Tex., which happily discovered it had designated Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving Day by mistake. Alf Landon sounded off in Colorado as follows: ". . . Another illustration of the confusion which his impulsiveness has caused so frequently during his administration. If the change has any merit at all, more time should have been taken in working...
Negroes are not permitted to play major-league baseball, are not tolerated in bigtime tournaments of the U. S. Golf Association or the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association.† They have their own American League and National League, their own All-Star baseball game. They have their own national golf association, which puts on championship matches. But at no sport are they more firmly organized than at tennis. For 23 years U. S. Negroes have banded together in the American Tennis Association, which not only serves as the governing body of 150 Negro clubs and 25,000 players but also...
Other investigations-monopoly, petroleum, tax revision, banking, forestry, fisheries, wild animal life-will play to smaller houses. Biggest show of all would have been the proposed investigation into the alleged Mexican oil dealings of Pennsylvania's onetime oilman, Senator Joe Guffey. In announcing the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee's decision to quash the investigation, Senator Connally of Texas wisecracked: "We've just dry-cleaned Joe." == Call for this inquiry arose from stories written by top-flight Reporter Marquis Childs in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and by pretty Ruth Sheldon in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Guffey...
Stan Shaw is a skinny, jumpy, 31-year-old ex-teacher of psychology and ex-orchestra leader from Kansas City. He and his aides never hand records back & forth, they throw them. With a great play at keeping everything Grade A on the Milkman's Matinee, Assistant John Flora prepares pots of refreshing black coffee for all hands, takes over the mike now and then if Stan's mouth is full. When 7 a. m. rolls around, the crew go out and have dinner; if the weather is right, they ride out to Floyd Bennett Field and hire...
Gimlet-eyed, grandmotherly, soft-drawling Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) is a Southern gentlewoman who as a child liked to ride, hunt, shoot and play with the pickaninnies. A half-demented old family retainer taught her to read: by twelve she knew Shakespeare, Scott and Dickens "by heart," had "toyed with" the historical writings of Josephus, Motley, Gibbon. She read "no mushy children's books." Forty-two years ago she began writing a column of advice to the lovelorn which was not perceptibly influenced by any of the writers who had formed her girlish mind...