Word: season
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealing hint of what the Roosevelts talk about at table, last week's conference would have been newsworthy. It brought out 1) that Eleanor Roosevelt intends to be inveigled into no wasp-waist corsets this fall; 2) that the delicate White House problem of arranging diplomatic functions this season has been given over to the State Department. The President last week, for reasons of policy (see p. 11), kept an extremely circumspect silence, and Eleanor Roosevelt had to make news enough for two. She did it by expanding, under polite questioning, on her skins-and-pockets essay...
April is the month when England freshens herself for a new season, when showers brighten the turf at Ascot and Epsom and wandering Britons are homesick. April, too, is the month when His Majesty's Government gives a significant demonstration of its democratic character: in April the Chancellor of the Exchequer appears before a crowded House of Commons to "open" the budget, i. e., to ask the people's representatives to vote the taxes which the people will have to pay. Last April Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon appeared before the Commons with the highest peacetime...
When the University Band performs at the Bates game this afternoon, it will appear in full uniform at the opening game for the first time in many years. Ordinarily the blazers are not worn until later in the season...
...Harvard Freshman football team will open its season against Phillips Exeter Academy on Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock...
With eleven meets scheduled for the coming season, Coach Peterson is watching the squad closely. Among the candidates are free-stylers Darcy Curwen of Exeter, whose older brother, Jim, is a sprint star on the Varsity team, William Stires of Lehman High, Canton, Ohio, and Frank Gorman of University School, Cleveland. William Drucker, former New Trier Township High back-stroker, and Colin Houston of Exeter, a breastroker, are other aspirants for the '43 squad...