Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...majorities against reapportionment are mustered by the Southern Democrats it is easy to see. Seats gained on the 1930 basis would be: California, 6; Michigan, 4; Ohio, 3; New Jersey, Texas, 2; Arizona, Connecticut...
...strongest competition for second place will probably be encountered from the University of Southern California, with Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell also counting heavily in the scoring. The injury of Charles Borah on May 5, which kept him out of strenuous training for ten days, has opened possibilities in the dash events which may considerably affect the total of the Southern California team. Such men as A. E. French '29, and T. F. Mason '30, who both did 9 and 4-5 seconds in the 100 last Saturday, will give Borah trouble in the century unless...
...games which open today on the Soldiers Field track and turf invariably produce as stern and thrilling competition as may be found in any of the country's great athletic meets. Star performers of more than forty colleges from the University of Southern California in the south-west to Dartmouth in the north-east give assurance of serious assault on existing records; the great variety of competitors, many of whom have never faced each other before, make upsets and hair breadth finishes a foregone conclusion...
Three pole vaulters who are expected to force the bar above the present world record are entered in the fifty-second annual I. C. 4 A. Track and Field Championships in the Stadium this weekend. Lee Barnes of the University, of Southern California holds the record at 14 feet one and one-half inches. Sabin Carr, Yale captain, is close behind this mark with his former world record of 14 feet. Ward Edmonds of Stanford University took third in the Interscholastics last year when he was a sophomore, and has since developed into a strong potential rival for first honors...
DEAD LOVERS ARE FAITHFUL LOVERS- Frances Newman-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Curiously enough this book is not tedious. The first half concerns itself with the gold negligees, white ribbons, and creamy laces a pre-war Southern bride arranges for the retention of her husband's physical affections; the second half with the green hats, coral gowns, and visceral sensations of the girl who, ten years later, falls heir to those affections. Not that he, a chivalrous Southern gentleman, would involve her in an illicit relation, but as soon as his established reputation as rail-road president permits of a divorce...