Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent an enemy of Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 as he was his friend in 1932. His Frederick Burr ("Happy Hooligan") Opper has retired; his Tom Powers and Nelson Harding have lost their touch. Hence Publisher Hearst's message of hate has been chiefly depicted by such second-string draughtsmen as King Features' James G. ("Little Jimmy") Swinnerton and the New York American's Dorman H. Smith. Both specialize in a moronic, capped-&-gowned Brain Truster. Cartoonist Swinnerton's is distinguished by jackass ears...
Besides the contest for assistant conductor, the Pierian is currently running a competition for students in composition. All composers are invited to submit scores of works for full, chamber, or string orchestra before the Christmas recess...
Like most apparent miracles, football's most dramatic moment of last, week was really no miracle at all. In piling up a record which, with a victory over Michigan this week, will equal Notre Dame's record string of 20 in a row, Minnesota has become famed as a team that does not reach maximum efficiency until the second half of its games. A decade ago Minnesota teams were feared solely for the Norse power supplied to them by the huge muscular Swedes with which they were amply staffed. The current increase in Minnesota's football prestige...
...backbone of football practice at almost every college in the U. S. is practice scrimmage. At Minnesota, scrimmages stop when football starts. Instead of scrimmaging - which Bierman considers boring, dangerous, and useless :for college players old errough to know the game - -Minnesota's first-string players concentrate on kicking, running off plays, working on individual weaknesses, harassing a Bierman-invented dummy. Reversing, the normal order of training any football team was merely Coach Bierman's beginning at Minnesota. Next he revised all Minnesota's individual peculiarities. Concentrating on brains instead of power, he built teams around smart...
...such courage that he once won a race with his leg in a plaster cast, such endurance that he drove in another the day after a crack-up which doctors had said would keep him in bed for half a year, Nuvolari wears a little silver turtle on a string around his neck to remind him of the fable about the tortoise and the hare. Last week he remembered both the hare's boast and his own. Once, when he stopped to put imported gasoline into his car and imported mineral water down his own throat, Count Brivio took...