Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh, Dick Cassiano and George McAfee took turns dazzling a crowd of 50,000-but Cassiano's teammates were quicker on their feet, defeated Duke by the margin of a point-after-touchdown (14-to-13) in the biggest upset of the week...
More than 7,000,000 U. S. citizens took out hunting licenses this year. Last week, with the first frost on the pumpkin, farmers took down their cherished fowling-pieces, bankers assembled their shiny shotguns and the army of U. S. hunters took to the woods, the marshes and the prairies for their fall shooting. From Cape Cod to the Sierras, most of them were after rabbits. Many had their minds on quail, pheasant, grouse, squirrel, deer. But the most excited U. S. gunners last week were the 1,000,000 duck shooters looking forward to their rendezvous with canvasbacks...
Back in Texas, Elijah William Cunningham went to work as a reporter for the Dallas News, at the same time coached Southern Methodist University's football team. One of his jobs as a reporter was to interview Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Bill, married only a few days, took his bride along to impress her. But Stefansson was irritable. Said he: "If you are any kind of reporter you won't need to take notes." Thereupon he tore through a staccato monologue, dismissed his interviewer...
Many a youth last week had never heard of St. Nicholas, many a grown-up had forgotten it still existed. But alive it was, though senescent. Last week St. Nicholas, 66 years old, withdrew its foot from the grave, took a new lease on life, and went on sale exclusively in 112 F. W. Woolworth stores as a picture magazine for elementary grade-school children...
From a $7.50-a-day extra Miss Rand worked up to a $750-a-week silent film ingenue. When 1929 took her savings she had earned $2,000 weekly in vaudeville. For Recovery she developed her illuminating fan dance. In 1933 and 1934 Businesswoman Beck grossed $6,000 a week (with outside engagements) at Chicago's Century of Progress. Thereafter it was all gravy: movies, contracts, $1,000-a-day appearances at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, $2,500-a-week unveilings at Manhattan's Paradise Restaurant...