Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alien Registration division of the Department of Justice is housed in an abandoned roller-skating rink...
Everybody applauds folk art; New Hampshire has done something about it. Last week its League of Arts & Crafts put on its eighth annual fair in the hockey rink at Dartmouth College, Hanover. Attendance: 20,000. Sales: $10,000. On exhibition: the work of 2,000 Yankee citizens-tatting, wood carving, pottery, linoleum block prints, ironwork, jewel cutting (semiprecious stones), pins made from pine cones, baskets, buckwheat flour, etc. Most of it was spare time work done in back-street shops or snowbound, lamplit New England farmhouses. To meet stiff League standards, artisans can take lessons from League teachers...
Symphony in D for the Dodgers had much of the Dodgers' elusive, faunlike charm, and rated a place with such sporting music as Constant Lambert's Prizefight, Arthur Honegger's Rugby and Skating Rink, the ballets Card Game (Igor Stravinsky), Checkmate (Arthur Bliss...
Last week New York Ranger Coach Frank Boucher had some hot words for these million-odd rink-siders. Few of them, said he, knew what the world's fastest game was all about. To most of them hockey was a haphazard free-for-all in which someone occasionally slammed the puck into the net. Advised he: "Forget about the puck for a while and watch the way attack and defense form." To the average fan, this was a counsel of perfection. So fast is hockey that players have to make their snap decisions while spurting 30 ft. a second...
...full periods the Hoddermen had the situation well in hand, battling the favored Bengals all over their own rink and running up a 4 to 2 lead. A disastrous third period tripping penalty and a flukey Tiger shot explain why Princeton is still on top of the roost with the Crimson occupying the opposite extremity...