Word: takes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reminisced these veterans, there was nothing at sea like Germany's raiders. They behaved far differently from submarines. The raiders' game was almost merry: a game of masquerade, chase, chivalry, a game with rules,-grim outlawry with a face of fun and even a little virtue. Take, for instance, the old Emden...
...winner faints, cusses or thanks Providence the audience hears none of it, because NBC dares not take the responsibility for airing what goes on at rainbow's end. In Woodcarver Drouin's case, Ben Grauer reported that he had said: "I ought to buy that boy some lollipops." Next week the winner was a preacher, the Rev. W. H. Lash of Salisbury, N. C. At the parsonage, a female voice answered, showed no excitement over the message; replied that the Reverend was not at home. The Reverend won $1,000 just the same. If no one had answered...
...compete in the major-league circuit -the 100-odd rodeos sponsored by the R. A. A.-a cowboy must be a better-than-average bronc rider, calf roper, steer wrestler or steer rider. More than that, he must be willing to take a chance. A cowboy on the range gets around $40 a month-with "grub." A rodeo cowboy gets no salary at all. He pays his own traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost...
...Garden while his wife gets the Broadway permanent she has been dying for. Some wives perform at the Garden too (almost all rodeos have women's bronc-riding contests). But the girl who made even the cowboys sit up-and take notice last week was a rich Texas rancher's daughter, svelte, 17-year-old Sydna Yokley, who put on as spunky an exhibition of calf roping as has ever been seen east of Powder River: throwing and tying a calf twice her weight in about 40 sec. (topnotch calf ropers rarely do it in less than...
...stayed on at Oxford. There they cut more lectures than ever, carried stretchers and sandbagged buildings, saw dons doff their black robes for titles such as "staff member of the Ministry of Economic Warfare." Two scholars, H. K. Smith and J. F. Golay, soon went up to London to take temporary jobs with the United Press...