Word: rufous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the U. S. Davis Cup team was having a good time taking all five matches from Germany last week on the Rufous Scoria courts of Berlin's Rotweiss (Red White) Club, sport-scribes were having a good time cabling details that did not appear in the scores. Some of the details...
...Leonard's wits almost matched her miniature physical perfections. They carried her so far that she failed to notice how they spoiled her, undermined her values. She could get an Alan Pomeroy so easily by the time she met him that she could not relish him - rufous, genuine, generous, but so obtainable. A Jerry Davis, her natural match at seduction and vastly her superior in experience, could destroy her indifference with one infallible weapon, greater indifference...
...dedicated their volume to a 95% man, "who," they said, "might have dictated the answers to these questions and spared the authors the trouble of looking them up." This 95-percenter was energetic Editor Herbert Bayard Swope of the World, among whose favorite pastimes is sitting, a sharp-witted, rufous Zeus, among lesser immortals of his metromundane Olympus, being "it" (all alone) in a game of Nebuchadnezzar. When Ask Me Another! was published last week it contained 30 general quizzes and 10 special ones. Editor Swope did better on "Current Politics," getting 96%. Grantland Rice produced an immaculate...
...More Women. The audience could only mutter; "There are no such animals," and take its pleasure in Actor Charles Bickford's tacit agreement. He is supposed to be a rufous Wyoming body-snatcher who has never missed his snatch, even including a warm Manhattan divorcee who strolls into Cody dressed for Newport. Something about her is supposed to purify his ardor; he has to return from her bedroom saying he "wouldn't do such." The bedroom is in a dude lodge belonging to two embittered Manhattan males with a shingle over their door, "Damn the Women...
...only not invited to stay at the White House but also refused an audience by the President in spite of the fact that her affectionate disposition was attested by all acquaintances on her arrival at the Capital, a rufous-bellied wallaby, sent to Mr. Coolidge by a Tasmanian admirer, was shipped direct to the Washington zoo with the President's request that she be taken care of. She was given temporary quarters in the antelope house, although not related to them...