Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SISTER EILEEN-Ruth McKenney-Harcourt, Brace...
First of them to break away was the mask-faced zealot, Martha Graham, who left a lucrative job with the then-popular Ruth St. Denis company to brood and prance alone in a Manhattan studio. Results of this brooding, Graham's Manhattan concerts in 1926-29, were the first doses of modernist dance Manhattanites had ever taken. Soon, however, two other former Denishawn dancers, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, joined the procession. When famed German Modernist Dancer Mary Wigman visited the U. S. in 1930-31, the U. S. home-grown modernist dance had already taken root. But Wigman...
Died. John Medill McCormick, 21, son of the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick and Illinois' onetime Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, grandson of Cleveland's late great politico Mark Hanna, nephew of Chicago Publishing Tycoon Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, fourth generation heir of the Patterson-McCormick newspaper empire (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News}; fortnight ago when he and 20-year-old Princeton Student Richard Whitmer fell from a 2,000-ft. cliff in the Sandia Mountains, near Albuquerque, N. Mex. Searchers, directed by Mrs. Simms, took a week to find McCormick's body...
...days later, General Manager MacPhail again showed his sense of showmanship by signing Spectator Ruth as coach for the seventh-place Dodgers at a salary of $15,000 for the remainder of the season...
While Brooklyn fans were shouting to each other over this unexpected bargain performance, the unprecedented feat of Johnny Vander Meer spread all over the world. First to congratulate him was Spectator Babe Ruth. "Nice going, kid," boomed the Babe, a pitcher once himself, as he put his arm around the youngster and blinked into the floodlights, doubtless recalling his own famed streaks of three homeruns in one game in the World Series of 1926, again...