Word: realm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show of fun and frankness unusual in his stereotyped profession, a San Francisco pressagent lately wrote: "When you come right down to it, a great World's Fair is the architect's form of that good old American custom, the Binge. . . . He can work in the realm of pure fantasy without worrying much about his client's idea of how a building ought to look, because he is using (perhaps happily) impermanent materials and because his real client is the general public, and what the general public wants is not utility, but romance and beauty and drama...
...Robert Early Strawbridge Jr., a seven-goal player, son of the vice president of Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier department store, became chairman of the Polo Association two years ago, he noted that the handicapping job was growing too big for Eastern riding breeches. Forthwith, the U. S. polo realm was divided into six parts (Northeastern, Southeastern, Central, Northwestern, Southwestern, Pacific Coast), and each part was permitted a representative on the Board of Governors. This year, for the first time, the recommendation of handicaps for its own member-players was taken over by a local committee in each section. Final...
Continuing the House football league Adams this afternoon plays Eliot, and Lowell takes on Winthrop. In the realm of touch football Adams opposes Dunster House, and Leverett plays Lowell...
...Baba Goes to Town (Twentieth Century-Fox) transports taw-eyed, prancing little Eddie Cantor to ancient Bagdad, where he physics the ailing realm of Sultan Roland Young with panaceas borrowed from the New Deal. Haroun-al-Cantor's venture into political satire is tuneful, gay, imaginatively written, generously produced. The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw...
Taking a deep breath this able scientist added a final cracker: "It is also within the realm of possibility, although it might not be wise, that we could produce ovulation that would result in more than one child if the patient wanted twins...