Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training since last year to serve with the Army as cooks, clerks, signalers. There are now 20,000, aged 18 to 43, many of them veterans or daughters of veterans. With Dame Helen again at their head, the WATS live the life of college girls in neat barracks, play hockey (absorbedly watched by soldiers off duty), give dances, go in strongly for makeup and midnight suppers...
Last week came a play of Pagan's own and with it the clue to how he wangled his cash. Pagan's To the End of Time proved to be a lashing attack on John L. Lewis. Called John Steele in the play and portrayed as a scoundrel, he dies in Act II, goes to Heaven only long enough to be lambasted, then is booted...
...turn Milwaukee's critics booted the play, joked that the town's anti-labor overlords had backed a walleyed nag. Milwaukee's C. I. O. leaders merely sat tight. For them it was enough that To the End of Time was playing to half-empty houses...
...second day, beloved Bucky Walters, the renovated third-baseman who had pitched 27 victories for Cincinnati this year, suffered a 4-to-o shutout. Then, on the third day, came Our Boys' last chance to nail the pennant in front of the homefolks. With three games left to play they could still clinch it in Pittsburgh, by winning two games of their final series against the Pirates. But the Reds had been shut out in the last two games, had failed to score a run in 24 innings; their fielding had become butterfingered. Things looked dark in Cincinnati...
Leverett and Winthrop, and Dunster and Kirkland play Tuesday...