Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charleston. Elected second vice president of the society was Adolph Newburger of Manhattan, whose claim to fame is that he taught the Charleston 20 years before it became popular. He denies it originated among South Carolina Negroes. It was, he says, one of the steps in his stage-dance, "The American Beauty Rose," danced more than 15 years...
...race the outlandish Swedish knockabout Bachante, gathered her big spinnaker full of wind and kited away from the German yacht Kickerle, and the U. S. Tipler III, to win with a record margin of over 21 min. U. S. yachtsmen looked puzzled, German yachtsmen muttered grave gutturals. In the second and third races, Bachante readily repeated her first victory, thus cinching the Corinthian Yacht Club cup and the Marblehead trophy. Said a U. S. yachtsman wistfully: "We are glad that the Swedes won the big cup, but we are more grateful for what they have shown...
...play takes three and one-half hours. The time is the unspecified future. The hero is the King of England. In the first act, the King resists the attempts of his Cabinet to deprive him of the right of veto. In the second, he talks tediously with his mistress. In the third, he is approached by the U. S. Ambassador and informed that the U. S. wishes to return to the British Empire-to absorb it. Shaw eventually postulates his thesis, which is a criticism of democracy most succinctly expressed in the somewhat muddled Shavianism spoken by King Magnus...
...races and show at Cleveland this week. Most conspicuous was the Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica, Cal. After considerable squabbling (TIME, June 24), 19 women set out, including Marvel Crosson, Ruth Nichols, Ruth Elder, Amelia Earhart, Louise McPhetridge Thaden, Phoebe Omlie, Thea Rasche. The second day out Miss Crosson crashed fatally. Others had accidents, which they attributed to sabotage (not confirmed by investigators) or got lost. Thirteen ended the race, Ruth Nichols cracking up only 130 miles from the Cleveland airport. The Department of Commerce tried to evict Miss Rasche en route because her license had expired...
...Second in importance to Philatelist Hind's $82,500 scraps were three more Mauritius stamps?one tuppenny, two one-pennies? owned by Alfred F. Lichtenstein of Manhattan. He also showed to envious fellow collectors the "most beautiful philatelic piece," and original cover bearing four neatly pasted Cape of Good Hope triangular "wood blocks," addressed in a fine, spidery hand...