Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vincent Lopez [TIME, Feb. 7] proposes that the melody of the immortal "Star Spangled Banner" be changed...
Last year Stagehand finished his two-year-old season a maiden (a horse that has never won a race). But this winter, in the theatrical setting at Santa Anita, Stagehand blossomed into a star, won three races in a row. Racing fans all knew that the incomparable Earl Sande, most famed jockey of modern times, was Maxwell Howard's trainer. Because Earl Sande in his riding days had won 967 races (including three Kentucky Derbies and five Belmont Stakes), earned $3,000,000 for his employers, and had the reputation of being able to do more with a horse...
Like a true Hollywood star, Stagehand had earned $42,775 in less than two minutes, promptly became a favorite for the Kentucky Derby...
...runs in the Earle family. Eyvind's father, Ferdinand Pinney Earle, is noted not only for five successive marriages and a generally Byronic character but for his writing. He recoined the delicate noun "affinity" into its special sense of "soul mate." A stage designer, he made the Star of Bethlehem and Valley of the Lepers sets in Ben Hur. "Affinity" Earle now lives in France. Eyvind's uncle on his mother's side is slight, dark Dr. William Carlos Williams, the realist poet of Rutherford...
...Princeton's surprise victory Monday has a rather ominous note in addition to the cheerful thought that the Feslermen may end up on top. By so roundly trouncing Dartmouth, the Bengals give promise of becoming a determining power in the league. With the return of their star, Johnny Vruink, from the injured list, the Tigers may reverse the decision of the first Harvard encounter which the Crimson won handily, and defeat the Varsity when the two fives meet again...