Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prisons last week President Roosevelt swept by a pen-stroke 64 drug-peddlers, 50 counterfeiters, 37 assorted thieves, murderers, white-slavers, violators of postal, immigration, bankruptcy and motor theft laws. At 95? each per day, it was costing the U. S. $52,000 per year to support them in jail. Signing the largest deportation order in U. S. history, the President consigned the 151 criminals, aliens all, to exercise their talents in their native lands...
...agile and sometimes ornamental torsos are perennial decorations for U. S. sports pages had several spectacular new members, a new list of champions: 100-metre free style .............Olive McKean 440-yd. free style .............Lenore Right 880-yd. free style ..............Lenore Right Mile free style ...............Lenore Right 220-yd. back stroke...........Elizabeth Rompa 220-yd. breast stroke..............Ratherine Rawls 300-metre medley .................Katherine Rawls Springboard dive................ Mary Hoerger Platform dive Dorothy Poynton Hill 300-metre medley relay ..............Women's Swimming Association 880-yd. relay. . .Washington Athletic Club
...arriving on the scene not singly but in bunches. Familiar to rotogravure readers are the Rawls sisters-Katherine (18), Evelyn (16), Dorothy (15), Peggy (10). Evelyn last week finished third in the free-style mile, fourth in the medley. Dorothy was fourth in the 220-yd. breast stroke. Peggy stayed at home. At Manhattan Beach last week, four more families of swimmers - the Hopkins twins of Miami Beach, the Gormans of Homestead, the Rompas of Manhattan and the Hoergers of Miami Beach - submerged into celebrity. The last two families at least seemed particularly likely to account for themselves creditably...
...discomfited questioner. Soon the correspondents as a group were agreeing with the President's secretaries that in diplomacy he is very adroit, revels in doing "the smart thing," and would have made a perfect Ambassador in the great days of diplomacy, a sort of Talleyrand. The master stroke delivered by Talleyrand Roosevelt last week was to have the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires inform Emperor Power of Trinity that...
...British Ryder Cup team two years ago, admitted last week that his golf in the Open was the best that he had played for two years. A onetime caddy who learned his game at 6, an assistant to famed James Braid at 14, Perry plays with a quick stroke which looks odd because he keeps his right hand under the club, uses a scythe-like swing. Among the absurd legends about him which he had to deny last week was one, invented by reporters who could think of nothing else to say, that he was lefthanded. Said Open Champion Perry...