Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is not true since if any House player had much ability and showed any interest he would be on the Junior Varsity. Furthermore it is obviously easier to coach a small J. V. squad than the many House teams. Therefore the coaches will draw more from the J. V. squad than from the House teams. John W. Brooks...
Governor Saltonstall promptly appointed to succeed Mr. Reardon, Walter Francis Downey, headmaster of Boston English High School, like Mr. Reardon, a Roman Catholic. Trim, white-haired Walter Downey, 54, a summa cum laude graduate of Amherst and a crack tennis player, sits on the bench with coaches and players at English High football games, in his excitement twists & squirms as hard as anyone on the field...
...drying in warm air currents. A more immediate pleasure on opening day was afforded by about 5,000 square feet of interior murals done by WPA artists under the direction of many-minded Hilaire Hiler (pronounced Hillair Hyler), one of the wonder boys of modern decoration. A onetime saxophone player who drifted from the University of Pennsylvania to Berlin, from Berlin to Paris, Hiler fell to painting in the '20's and became good so fast that Parisian night clubs like the Jungle, the Grand Duke, the Jockey and the Manitou would have nothing but Hiler decorations...
Blonde, 19-year-old Dorothy Davis is probably the most beautiful corporation president in the world. Her firm: Love, Inc., of Manhattan. Her commodity: Love, a game. In effect, Love is parchesi with sex appeal. Players start single, win by pairing with a player of the opposite sex, moving up to goal marked The Altar. Cards rather than dice determine moves. If a pair draw cards marked "Edward" and "Wallis," they move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...Jews). Advertised as an "entertaining, instructive and solidly constructed" game, its equipment is a pair of dice, a playing board covered with a map of Europe and Asia, a number of small figures patterned after the odious Jewish caricatures of Julius Streicher's Der Stünner. The players shake the dice in turn, move the Jews across the map by stages determined by the dice. The winner: the first player to get all his Jews out of Germany and into Palestine...