Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone who has watched the magnificent swish of a sharp christie should not stay at home, eyeing the toe straps on a pair of his father's dusty skies. The snow trains and inexpensive cottages have made a healthy weekend practical. There are a great many potential fans who are dubious about skiing because they do not know how to get started, but a Harvard school for beginning, intermediate and advanced stages should give them just the incentive they need. And then the over-confident old hands may stop awhile and learn some fundamentals, instead of schussing down a trial...
Heavyweight Bill Glendinning tied up 230-pound John Maleno of the Philadelphians but lacked the speed and dexterity he showed last year, failing to score a fall. After gaining an early advantage Bill Daughaday undefeated as a Freshman and Varsity wrestler, succumbed to the toe-holds of Captain Ruggiero and lost by decision...
Last autumn, when Choreographer Léonide Massine announced that he would leave the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for a more congenial job with World-Art, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 1), things looked bad for Colonel de Basil's toe-dancers. Temperamental Massine had always felt that de Basil cramped his style, had long awaited a chance to launch a company all his own. The chance came when Chicago's art-conscious celebrity-chaser. Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed, steered him toward Yeast Tycoon Julius Fleischmann, who had cherished a secret passion to patronize the arts. Upshot...
...society's shield: a button bearing a top hat with U. S. A. on the crown and a cane and gloves rampant on a blue field. Its slogan: "He who walks backward never stubs his toe...
...toe" McGillicuddy, of Brighton, said by Yard police to be an habitual drunkard, was arrested late yesterday afternoon in Little Hall...