Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because an enterprising editor of a national sport magazine wanted to increase his advertising by booming the arms & ammunition industry, a new U. S. sport named skeet was created 13 years ago. An offshoot of trapshooting. its procedure of firing from eight different stations around a semicircle appealed to tony country-club members because it did a pretty good job of simulating upland game shooting. Five years ago there were 800 skeet clubs in the U. S., 20.000 registered skeeters. This year there are 2.500 skeet clubs, 100,000 skeeters...
...celebrated American dancer. In Carefree he explains that he learned to dance in college, then psychoanalyzed himself to find out what he really wanted, discovered that he wanted to be a psychiatrist. He made a success of his profession, built up a pretty practice among the maladjusted skeet-shooting set. When his friend Stephen (Ralph Bellamy) brings his fiancée (Ginger Rogers) to be psychoanalyzed, it turns out that she knows how to dance too. From then on Stephen never has a chance...
...President spent on the island with six members of his Cabinet and several Democratic leaders of Congress, some serious politics may have been talked but during the day he was surrounded by shirt-sleeved Congressmen eating off long tables on the lawn, drinking beer and confabbing between bouts of skeet shooting, swimming in the nude and other innocent occupations. The air was one of slightly stilted jollification for some of the divisions in the party were already too deep to be healed by such simple means, but the President guffawed at the Negro stories of bumbling Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith...
...Grosse Pointe, Mich. For Packard's Wartime airplane plant he developed the U. S. Army's Selfridge Field air base. For motorists he pushed to completion the Atlantic City-to- Oakland Lincoln Highway (U. S. Route 30), first U. S. transcontinental hard-surfaced highway. A pioneer skeet shooter, he once held a world record of 157 consecutive breaks...
Pulling at their old-and-mild in the local pub last week, Norfolk yokels guffawed with native pride as they read in London's Sunday Referee all about their 103-year-old pal George Skeet, "Britain's most wonderful father." A lad of 25 in 1858, George took a wife, who bore him two sons now aged 60 and 69. "The marriage," reported the Referee, "pursued the unruffled happiness of a rural England idyll till George was eighty-eight." Then his wife died. George, however, "felt that he had years ahead of him." At 90 he took...