Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until Sept. 30. For months His Grace has been trying to start a British Sweepstake for charity which would evade the United Kingdom's strict law against lotteries. Originally ten-shilling tickets were to have been sold to anyone who cared to take a purely nominal "test of skill" by arranging "in order of artistic merit" the racing colors of King George and three other prominent turfmen.* After 9,000,000 tickets had been printed and many sold, Scotland Yard suddenly intervened. Stern Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour held the scheme to be a lottery. His Grace the Duke...
...game. The Giants under Manager Bill Terry, who has organized the best pitching staff in the league, have unexpectedly stayed in first place against harder-hitting teams like Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago. Last week the Giants made it clear that they do not depend entirely on defensive skill by thrashing Philadelphia 18 to 1 twice...
...enjoyed the hospitality of California's James (''Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. Monkeyshines began when their special train was playfully "held up" at midnight as it crossed the State line. At Truckee, Calif, there was a rodeo and Idaho's Charles Ben Ross exhibited his skill with a lariat, ended by roping Governor Rolph around the neck. There was a picnic near Lake Tahoe and champagne on the train from Sacramento to Oakland. In San Francisco's Palace Hotel the Governors ate off a $500,000 gold service while Communists fussed noisily outside. They gaped...
...women's contest was really unnecessary. Well-informed horseshoe pitchers are aware that the best women pitchers in the U. S. are the Schultz sisters of Harvey, Ill., Caroline and Charlotte, who have been exhibiting their skill in the Midwest, where horseshoe pitching principally thrives, for the last seven years. The Schultz sisters are plump, brown and stocky with bobbed brown hair. Caroline is 21, Charlotte 22. Since they took up their pastime in 1926, they have pitched horseshoes three times every day on their own courts and either of them will guarantee 200 ringers in 30 minutes. Once...
...convicts and ticket-of-leave men who clustered there around the earliest tent-dwelling Chileno (Spanish-American) harlots. These "Sydney Ducks" made up the city's first criminal element. Their grog-shops, dancehalls and bawdy houses became spawning grounds for swindlers, burglars, thugs, arsonists and murderers of infamous skill and boldness. In a 40,000 population there was an average of two murders a day. The town was nearly wiped out by incendiary fire six times before the Vigilance Committee drove out the Sydney Ducks and temporarily restored the city's underworld to normal limits in debauchery...