Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Pylkowski ("Babe Risko"), 22-year-old ex-sailor of Syracuse. N. Y.; his 25th professional fight, against Teddy Yarosz of Monaca, Pa., for the middle-weight championship of the world; winning twelve of 15 rounds; in Pittsburgh...
Texans wore straw sombreros, Kansans paper sunflower hats, Marylanders yellow and black capes, Californians sailor suits. And because Philadelphia was host last week to the 35th International Christian Endeavor convention, certain youthful Pennsylvanians wore Liberty Bell contraptions labeled, HELLO I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU. At Convention Hall 12,000 young people, aged from 16 to 27, paid $2 registration fees. Claiming thaT 40,000 attended some sessions, officials inaccurately called it "the largest youth gathering in the history of North America." Apparently they had forgotten that in 1895 a rousing Christian Endeavor convention in Boston drew...
...went out to finish his education on the road. Slowly he hoboed his way to California, taking jobs by the way when he felt like it or had to. Before he got there he saw his pal cut in two by a freight car. After one voyage as a sailor he decided it was time to learn a trade, fixed on bricklaying. ("But there's diffulgultees getting into the bricklaying game, what I mean. You should of seen the runaround they hands me.") Eventually, in Chicago, he wangled his way into the union, learned the trade and began...
Mississippi (Paramount). To many a cinemaddict any W. C. Fields picture is a good one. This musical film also contains Crooner Bing Crosby, who with bland face and bland voice has recently impersonated such characters as a sailor, a Princeton student, a crooner. Together, Fields and Crosby add certain novel elements to Mississippi's "you-all," hoop skirt & julep plot as taken from a Booth Tarkington play...
Died. Ex-Queen Joanna of Tahiti, 80; in Papeete. Born Marau Toroa, daughter of a British sailor and a native princess, she married King Pomare V in 1875 when England and France were intriguing for Tahiti. Queen Joanna favored England. Fun-loving, she shocked Christian missionaries with her private life, which included giving birth to a daughter whose paternity Pomare denied in a royal proclamation. Finally won by French diplomacy, Joanna made no protest when her husband abdicated...