Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This tiresome chore done, the Frenchmen got busy next morning with Britons who pull more weight in the National Government than does the Prime Minister, namely, Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and such bright younger men as Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the Government, and Captain Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal...
...last week, the major-league hockey season was sufficiently advanced for experts to make their prophecies on how it will end next month, when the three leading teams in the two divisions-of the League play a complicated round-robin tournament for the world's championship Stanley...
...Wings were last week slipping into last place, while the New York Rangers, by means of their extraordinary winning streak, were climbing into third. A notch above the Rangers were the boisterous Boston Bruins, built around sandy-haired Eddie Shore. Leading the division was the team which won the Stanley Cup last year and which most experts favor to retain it this year, the Chicago Black Hawks...
When the Black Hawks wron the Stanley Cup a year ago, a lion's share of the credit went to their spry, handsome, chattering little goaltender, Charles ("Chuck") Gardiner, considered one of the ablest in the history of the game. Two months after the final game last year, Gardiner died of a brain tumor. Whether the Black Hawks win again will depend on many things but most of all upon the man who took his place...
Until it could be seen whether this move would have "Hang the Kaiser" appeal or not, His Majesty's Government last week kept their fingers crossed. Mildly Minister of Labor Oliver Stanley chided: "Lloyd George really should call it a Bigger Deal or a Better Deal or a Brighter Deal but not a New Deal...