Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...District Council, were actually racketeers who used their labor affiliation to screen a series of more or less dignified burglaries. Prosecutor Cullitan did not have much luck. When two plain-clothes men were assigned to follow them, Messrs. Campbell & McGee donned frock coats and silk hats, hired an accordion player, a saxophonist and two cars, had the band play Me and My Shadow while they paraded through the streets trailed by the humiliated detectives. Last autumn the tide turned. About the time Mr. McGee was being literally thrown out of his union job, Cleveland's Safety Director Eliot Ness...
...Mountain, and Bandit Chief Nelson Eddy are rivals for Jeanette MacDonald, pastel-tinted proprietress of the Polka Saloon. Eddy's dimples, wavy hair and roly-poly pinkness satisfy the popular idea of a rakehell bad man about as well as they did that of a West Point football player in Rosalie. Miss MacDonald's concession to her role is a rolling walk and belligerent way of batting her eyelashes. Best song: Soldiers of Fortune...
Prince Johannes zu Loewenstein is not a roulette player himself. Scion of an ancient noble German line, he is a 37-year-old Doctor of Philosophy who lives in Vienna, a brother of Hubertus Loewenstein, prominent German Catholic. Passing through Baden two years ago, tall, solemn Prince Loewenstein stopped at the casino to watch a roulette table in action. He was impressed by the jitters of notetakers who tried to write down not only the numbers which turned up, but their colors, their positions on the transverse and vertical rows of the betting cloth and various other group affiliations. There...
Already he is getting ready to step into his spring role as tennis coach. According to Cowles, the games are not at all incompatible. "Most of my best tennis players have also played squash," he said recently. "If a player is fundamentally sound in both games, squash will help his tennis...
...great hopes for the game's future. "It's not the best competitive game; there are too many a player can crowd and push without actually breaking rules," he admits. But he hopes that this situation will be improved with the use of competent referees in future intercollegiate matches...