Word: tenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Athletic Club's 31-year-old Harry Florian Wolf, who has held the so-called national amateur championship for nine years. Last week, on the slick white courts of Manhattan's Harvard Club, Slugger Wolf pasted his way through a bracket of 37 aspirants to his tenth championship, but as far as 99.44% of U. S. sport followers were concerned, he might as well have won the ash-barrel-rolling title...
...evening when daughter is "having company." She learns "lines" quickly, and finds that the old adage "early to bed and early to rise" makes a girl healthy, happy, and safe, is true. Nine times out of ten that is the case. Of course there is always the tenth girl who just happened to meet the right fellow, and now has three maids and even takes in the opera! This case is rare, however, and the townie usually goes back to the local boy who really made good...
...just leans back and Ah thinks of low lights and the right girl." Excellent criteria for the judgment of swing. The rhythm section of the band turned out a record this week called "How Long How Long Blues" and "Boogie-Woogie" that swings quietly . . . Jimmy Dorsey celebrated his tenth anniversary about a month ago. You'd think he would have run out of ideas by now, but his alto chorus on "All of Me" is really one for the books. Helen O'Connell's vocal shows much improvement, being more like Mildred Bailey, but is still too stiff. Listen...
...swam the 50 in 22.9, typing the National Collegiate Athletic Association record, a time which, incidentally, is one-tenth of a second under Charlie Hutter's best performance. Tomski also won the 100 in 52.# and swam a relay 100 in 50.3, which is seven-tenths of a second under the accepted world record set by Johnny Weismuller and Peter Fick. Of course, this time must be considered unofficial, as are all relay clockings...
Last week, on the tenth anniversary of his wrong-way run, Roy Riegels' wife filed suit for divorce. Reason: moroseness...