Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Beaver, electrician of Berwyn, Pa.: the Grand American Handicap, No. 1 trapshooting event of the year; with 25 breaks in a row in the shoot-off, to 23 for 17-year-old Ned Lilly of Stanton, Mich., U. S. Junior Champion, after both had broken 98 out of 100; at Vandalia, Ohio. ¶All-star footballers representing the Midwest: a game against the Pacific Coast, coached by Howard Jones of the University of Southern California, with seven of his last year's team in the lineup; 13 to 7, largely because of a brilliant performance by Michigan...
...chance to stop running from one end of her baseline to the other. In the next set, Mrs. Moody seemed to have recovered some of her old assurance. When Helen Jacobs crept up to 3-all from 0-3, Mrs. Moody briskly ran off three more games in a row. After a ten-minute rest, she came back to the court and sat down in a linesman's chair to wait for her opponent...
...third set, she double-faulted twice, so feebly that the crowd grew restless and Umpire Benjamin Dwight had to hold up his hand for silence. Helen Jacobs won that game and the next, from 0-30. Serving again, Mrs. Moody won one point and then lost four in a row. She walked to the side of the net as though to change courts, held up her racquet, said to Umpire Dwight that her legs were so tired she felt unable to continue. Sensing the situation before the crowd knew what had happened, Helen Jacobs...
...film with his "inverted periscope" cinecamera. Inventor Douglass' pretty daughter Florence, 17, volunteered. First time she dove into the tank the octopus was unimpressed. Next time the monster, as desired, slithered its eight long tentacles around her body, glued them tight with each one's double row of suckers. Father Douglass filmed breathlessly, finished his reel. But the octopus did not know it was only play. It continued to embrace the heroine, keeping her on the bottom until several male bystanders dived in, pulled it off. To soothe her bruises, Florence's grateful father gave...
...Once when the Secretary was inspecting Quantico, which Butler took pride in believing was the "finest post in the U. S.," Adams humphed at everything he saw, finally pointed to a stadium Butler was building for his men, snorted: "That's one of your damned follies." Last big row in which Butler was the central figure came in 1929, when he was arrested and ordered court-martialed for retailing an anecdote in which Mussolini figured as a hit-and-run driver. The affair passed off with a reprimand, but in October 1931, having been passed over for Commandant...