Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last spring, in training; camp, bellicose Baseman Shires operated similarly on Manager Blackburne...
Used to the ways of trappers. Mme. Courtois did not expect her husband and sons back from their business until the Spring. But June came, the fishing season started, and still they did not return. Neighboring trappers and lumbermen talked of organizing search parties. But, remembering shock-headed Dave Courtois' experience, his brawn, his ability to quaff tin dippers of "trade whiskey" from a barrel, they waited...
...representing the World Court Powers and authorized by the Assembly of the League formally assented to the so-called "Root Formula" under which the U. S. is expected to adhere to the Court at long last (see p. 12). President Hoover sent famed Jurist Root unofficially to Geneva last spring, and he remained there three weeks (TIME, March 18, et seq.), dickering with League and Court statesmen over mutually satisfactory terms of U. S. adherence. As finally drafted and approved the "Root Formula" will permit the U. S. to become one of the Court Powers under an elaborate reservation...
Paul Robeson, Negro actor (Emperor Jones, Black Boy, Showboat [in London]), last week signed with Maurice Browne, producer (Journey's End), to play the Moor in Othello. After performances in London next spring, Producer Browne plans to give Othello in the U. S. and Canada, has secured an option on Negro Robeson's appearance in the same role in cinema...
...Last spring soft-spoken Editor William Ludlow Chenery of Collier's pondered Hidalgo's startling growth. Soon he despatched Writer Owen P. White, oldtime Texan, to be Hidalgo's historian. Writer White was amazed at many things he saw just above the Rio Grande. Among them, naturally, was "Rooster" Creager who, with Boss Baker, seemed to rule the Hidalgo roost. In his subsequent history, Writer White said: "It's right there [Hidalgo County] . . . that our two most stylish American breakfast foods, GRAFT and GRAPEFRUIT . . . have been brought to their very highest and juiciest state of perfection. . . . R. B. Creager...