Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth College went Boy Scout yesterday morning in a fashion that puts the famous Outing Club to shame. Clothing designers all over the country sat up to take notice as the men of green--five hundred strong--turned out for the daily jamboree in shorts. Leading Hanover undergraduates report the abbreviations are here to stay and manufacturers of young men's apparel are getting ready for a short cut to style...
Because suicide is almost the gravest sin in the rigid Communist code of political morals, the editor of Youth Pravda (news-organ of the Russian organization corresponding to Boy Scouts) found himself in a tight fix. His hero-worshipping young readers worshipped Vladimir Mayakovsky who had now greatly sinned. It was as though Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell should sin. But the official poet laureate, Demian Bedny, saved the situation, announced as it were ex cathedra that the poet had shot himself while suffering from "temporary insanity," had died in honor, a proper hero for boys under 14. No mention...
...horses Challenger, Golden Dawn, Recorder, Lovat Scout, entered in the 1930 Derby, will...
Author Ben Ray Redman, 34, served in the Royal Flying Corps during the War, was scout pilot of the 79th Squadron of the British Expeditionary Forces. Poet, critic, essayist, translator, short-story-writer, he was literary editor of The Spur, now writes a weekly column, "Old Wine in New Bottles," for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1926 he married Actress Frieda Inescort. Other books: Masquerade, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gustave Flaubert-a Biography...
Some of the houses run boys' camps at which they want college men over weekends. These boys' camps are situated near Boston and furnish an opportunity for any man who wishes to get away from college for the weekend. Former boy scouts find an opportunity in working with scout troops in passing tests. Dramatics and music offer a constant demand for experts, and good coaches in basketball, wrestling, fencing, boxing and even men to give skull practice in football and baseball are sought...