Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pictures shows a giant-bosomed, giant-toothed dame in frightening decolletage playing blind man's buff and shrieking DON'T HELP ME! DON'T HELP ME! to a row of gallants cringing away from her fat lurches. Another shows a scared young gentleman making a hasty escape from a roadster in which sits a sleek, lascivious wench. The young gentleman cries NO, NO! NOT THAT! A third displays a lady in taxicab whose face expresses explosive frenzy as she shouts at her indolent escort YOU'RE SO KIND TO ME, AND I'M SO TIRED...
...have been President of the United States. They number 29. I have counted them carefully. Yet on at least five occasions since election TIME has gravely and informatively told its readers that Herbert Hoover will be the 31st President. I add his portrait to the row-it only makes 30. Kindly explain...
Above is last year's victorious University wrestling team, the first one ever to defeat Yale in the history of the sport. The men are, reading from left to right: back row--Coach W. E. Lewis, J. F. Solano '30, Nathaniel Warner '30, R. G. Whiting '28, manager; front row--C. C. Corson '28, Captain Joseph Lifrak '29, T. D. Howe '28, former captain, J. H. Burns '29, L. J. Chibas...
...Washington correspondents the President observed, last week, that he would willingly consider any proposals for the limitation of armaments which might emanate from the British Government. Proposals of this nature were made in the House of Lords, last week, by Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, winner of the Wood-row Wilson Peace Prize, who was forced to resign as British representative on the League of Nations because his advocacy of pacifism and disarmament was in advance of the British Government's position. That position was such that absolutely nothing was achieved when the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June...
...Philadelphia refinery. For his second effort, he and Brother Gus went into business on their own account. They bought, from Father Claus, one of the Hawaiian plantations which they had remade into an efficient enterprise. Suddenly Father Claus cut off all money for further development. The family row shook the banks of San Francisco, but at length they found the money. When Son Rudolph was 26, he sold the plantation and prepared to retire. He had gratified his ambition. He was then a millionaire...