Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week fine spring weather spread warmly over a sunlit Europe. In Norway, where the nights now are like dim, water-green, translucent twilights; in England, where the potato crop is doing well thanks to the rains in May; in Switzerland, where the yodeling festival is a high spot of the Zurich Fair; in Paris, where they are singing One Fine Day from Madame Butterfly and dancing to Chopin's Seconde Étude played as a tango; in Warsaw, where the officers called up are whiling away the time between crises learning to play bridge; in Belgium, where they...
...western Ontario. If it was late at night when the King and Queen passed through a hamlet, crowds that gathered to see the shuttered cars flash by waved their flags, but kept silent lest they disturb King George and Queen Elizabeth's sleep. At White River, "coldest spot in Ontario," the train stopped to service the locomotive. On the snow-sprinkled platform Indians, school children, townspeople hoping against hope that they might glimpse their sovereigns, were overjoyed when Queen Elizabeth, motioning the King to follow, stepped from the train. Flustered aides rushed to the welcoming committee, demanded that...
...through Mr. Morgan's study, with its Bellini and Memling paintings on the walls, its desk ready to write a letter or sign a check at, its fire neatly laid for the next chill night. Nothing was said about coughing, but Library guards looked as if they could spot a soiled thumb a mile...
...weakfish (world's record: 17 Ibs. 3 oz.), least sporty of game fish. From the first of May, when the annual weakfish run starts off Cape Hatteras, they attract thousands of anglers along the saltwater bays, inlets and tidal rivers from Delaware to Long Island. Best weak, fishing spot is Peconic Bay on eastern Long Island where, during June, boats will be as numerous as canoes on a summer-camp lake...
...final entry list for the Oxford-Cambridge meet was also announced yesterday. Besides those previously announced, Brinckley of Yale has been awarded the number two spot in the high jump, since Bob Partlow, who is already slated to broad jump, withdrew; Marshall MacIsaac will be the second pole vaulter on the basis of his performance in the Heptagonal; and Yale's Bob Ord earned a berth when he beat out Joe Bradley in a special...