Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After seven war years the men's singles were as spotty as critics had guessed they would be. But the standard of women's play was high. The women's tournament was dominated by a quartet of California girls, relentless in their success, who all reached the semi-finals of the women's singles...
...slow start, but coming up fast on the outside is Social Relations 14, Anthropology and Modern Life. Almost devoid of feminine charm at the start of the term, 12 ladies now swell its ranks with further additions still possible. Social Relations 84, Social Pathology rounds out the quartet with ten girls enrolled...
...eldest son. Rolling in the aisles of the Laffmovie, shuddering as Hub men laughed in the wrong places and gasped at the low cut dresses of pre-Will Hays days, our hearts went out to Mother Marx, who, patiently and understandingly reared and molded four heterogeneous scions into a quartet of the laugh-makingest zanies ever to be rolled onto the American scene. The scene is "Duck Soup...
Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho starred in a little silly-season whoop-te-do over Washington's radio station WRC. Senator Claude Pepper bravely tooted his harmonica, Congressman James Percy Priest struggled with a guitar, a quartet sang, but Taylor and his banjo took the cake with Cowboy Joe from Idaho. As the legislator "most likely to succeed in radio," he got $100 from Senator Claghorn-in Confederate money, that...
Died. The Rev. Howard Hyde Russell, 90, co-founder and longtime head man of the Anti-Saloon League, conductor of its first transcontinental "water wagon" tour (featuring a barfly-badgering male quartet) ; in Westerville, Ohio. He started a career in law, at 28 suddenly told his wife, "I am giving up sin! I am free!" Three years ago he predicted...