Word: styling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meets will open at 3.30 o'clock on March 26 with the fraternity contests. There will be five of these, including a 100-yard relay race, a diving "6", a 50-yard free style, 50-yard back stroke, and a 50-yard breast stroke. They will allow one more type of competition are staging close races in the basketball leagues...
Swimming in the annual New England A. A. U. championships at the Brookline Public Baths last night, W. S. De Lima '31 clipped nine seconds off his own record for the senior men's 500-yard free style race when he thrashed the distance in 6 minutes 18 1-5 seconds. George Shinney of the Boys' Club of Boston, who finished second to De Lima, was lapped by the victorious Harvard Sophomore...
...which is by way of explaining that a pleasant, fluent style can make excellent reading out of what is essentially true. And this is what Mr. Walling has done in "Murder at the Keyhole". He has created characters of a really living and vital type, the sort of people one meets in everyday life, and it is this fact more than anything else that places "Murder at the Keyhole" distinctly above most...
WRITTEN by a reporter of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Evening American, this latest of novels on the life of a modern scribe has very little to recommend it. The story starts nowhere, gets now-where. The style is tabloid, frequently illustrated with actual newspaper stories of the most Moronic cast. Attempting, evidently, to give an impressionistic picture of the emotions of a rather sensitive reporter in the pay of a sensation-trusting city staff, the book falls short of the mark, and this despite the inclusion of various little novelties, the use of actual newspaper heads...
Wise the middle-aged golfer who learns to cut down his swing to conserve energy. And wise the middle-aged squash player who, speedy in his day, learns a softball style and lets the other fellow slash. Such is the wisdom of Dr. Harold R. Mixsell, hale squash oldster of Manhattan's Princeton Club, that his new softball style is even more baffling than the slam-banging game he used to play. Last week, it won for him, with great ease, his fourth consecutive national veterans' squash championship. Runner-up: William Murray Lee of the Columbia University Club...