Word: swans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joyce Swan, beaming promotion manager, sees to such enterprises as giving thousands of Iowa schoolchildren free rides in the newspaper's airplane...
...born dead (it would have had no silver rattle in any case); to rich, ugly Dorothy, whose hen brain mercifully was unable to tell her how miserable she was; to the Junoesque showgirl who had capped her career by marrying a faithful goose and finding him such a swan that she proudly concurred in naming their first-born "Shakespeare"; to aging Aunt Juliette, the Edwardian grande dame, wondering not if flirting had been wrong but if flirting was all; to Nurse Forbes, whose professionally cool head had at last conquered her hot heart; and back to Francesca again, listening...
Twosomes--Lynford Lardner, Jr. 37(H) defeated Berry (W), 1 up; Mansfield Brannigan '36 (H) defeated Schwab (W) 3 and 1; Robert C. Hunter, Jr. '36 (H) defeated Porter (W) 3 and 2; William E. Sibley, III, '35 (II) defeated Dodge (W) 3 and 2; Swan (W) defeated George E. Enos '37 (H) 1 up; Charles S. Bellows '37 (H) defeated Huston...
Foursomes--Berry and Schwab (W) defeated Lardner and Brannigan (H) 1 up; Hunter and Sibley (H) defeated Por- ter and Dodge (W), 2 and 1; Enos and Bellows (H) defeated Swan and Huston...
...since 1844 (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week specimens of all these unfortunates were included in an exhibition of extinct birds by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, coupled with a warning that, without rigid safeguards, three more North American birds are threatened with imminent annihilation: the trumpeter swan, the whooping crane, the ivory-billed woodpecker...