Word: tented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gott. Thus was dedicated the permanent home of the latest candidate for an "American Salzburg." Tanglewood, a large Stockbridge estate where Author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live, was deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise $100,000 for permanent quarters. Glad to get $80,000, the Festival committee commissioned Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen to design the Shed-a fan-shaped, open-sided building covering an acre and a half, its roof supported by three interior...
...Tony Galento, No. 1 contender for the world's heavyweight boxing title: an unscheduled fight against pneumonia, contracted while a teetotaler at training camp five days before a scheduled fight with Light Heavyweight Champion John Henry Lewis; after three blood transfusions and five days under an oxygen tent; at Orange, N. J. When told that his blood transfusions were injections of salt, impatient Tony, tired of being flat on his back with "this ammonia," growled: "Why can't Mary [his wife] put the salt in the soup instead of punching me full of holes like a free ticket...
...camp, Fisticuffer Galento drove sweatily back to his bar, served a few beers, drank a few himself and was soon running a 104° temperature between chills. At Orange Memorial Hospital, where his case was diagnosed as lobar pneumonia, he tried to fight his way out of the oxygen tent, relaxed at the request of his manager and declared: "I'll lick it like I licked those other bums...
Into the Potomac freight yards just outside of Washington. D. C. last week rolled Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc. Off the tent cars came rain-wet canvas to dry in the sun. lest spontaneous combustion destroy what labor combustion had left of the Greatest Show on Earth. Representative Robert Low Bacon of Long Island surveyed the sorry scene, declared through G. O. P.'s publicity office: "Not even the great Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus can compete with the circus the New Deal is now giving...
Elevator boys at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, where he lives, reckon that as long as life lasts will be many a year for the Hon. Joseph Buffington. Though he no longer sleeps in summer in a pup tent on the Bellevue-Stratford's roof-as he did in his gay seventies-he still spurns an elevator to descend from his ninth-floor rooms to the street. Neighbors who used to complain about his bouncing a medicine ball against the wall, he now outwits by merely tossing it in the air. Under his bed he keeps a rowing machine, used...