Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what high jinks to expect when Screwball Gary Grant falls in love with Screwball Carole Lombard. Far from high jinks is the sombre situation of rich young Alec Walker (Mr. Grant) when he falls in love with Julie Eden (Miss Lombard), a widowed commercial artist who has taken a summer cottage near his stately country seat. For, as rarely happens in screwball comedy but is very likely to happen in life, Alec has a tenacious wife with an undeveloped sense of humor, parents who also thought infidelity no joke. Before Lovers Grant and Lombard fight through to the clear, they...
Last spring when everyone was shouting about the Reds' great pitching staff, no one hailed 29-year-old William Henry ("Bucky") Walters as an approaching tornado. A made-over third baseman whom Manager Bill McKechnie had bought from the Phillies last summer, Pitcher Walters had a natural sinker (the reason he flopped as an infielder) and miracle Manager McKechnie had taught him some tricks of the trade; but the Reds had much abler pitchers in Johnny Vander Meer, Lee Grissom, Paul Derringer...
...Hundred Guineas Cup, first international yachting trophy ever put up-which later became known as the America's Cup and caused Britons to spend some $30,000,000 trying to get it back. It was there that the late King George's magnificent Britannia raced every summer for 40 years before she was buried at sea with due reverence...
...first racing in British waters, 50,000 British yachtsmen chuckled. The tricky tidal currents, blustering winds and close-to-shore courses, were quite different from U. S. racing. But, to their dismay, Skipper Vanderbilt caught on quickly, won twelve of the 17 races in which he started this summer. Last week's regatta, climax of the season, was Britain's last chance to recover its lost prestige...
...Richard Wagner. Every year at Bayreuth the Führer turns up and sits raptly listening to Tristan und Isolde. But Germany's favorite dramatist is an Elizabethan Englishman: William Shakespeare. And Shakespeare's foremost German producer before Adolf Hitler was a Jewish director, Max Reinhardt, whose summer theatre at Salzburg once ranked with Bayreuth as an international attraction for tourists...