Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need to do away with some frippery or extravagance last week. "I guess you'd better cut out your Speaker's Reception," the Premier told crestfallen Mr. Hipel, then bawled at reporters: "We'll have no teacup juggling ! There may be criticism in the City of Toronto but the man out in the back concession is applauding what I'm doing...
...Sniffed Toronto's loyalist Mail and Empire: ''There is more than a suspicion that Toronto society doesn't care a particle whether there is a Speaker's tea or a Lieutenant Governor's dinner or any other social function up around the Parliament Buildings. The folks who come from 'the back concessions' and those who hope that some day they may come are much more likely to be disappointed than anybody in Toronto. They want to be noticed. Their friends back home expect them to be noticed. Sometimes the friends back home...
...International Division last week, the Toronto Maple Leafs were overwhelming favorites to keep their present No. 1 position. Fast, heavy, durable and daring, the Maple Leafs' two most spectacular assets are Forwards Harvey Jackson and Charles Conacher, who lead the League in scoring goals. In second place were the Montreal Maroons, a clever team whose crack defenseman is Charles Conacher's older brother, Lionel. Fighting for third place last week were the Montreal Canadiens, who last summer traded their best players for younger ones who have thus far failed to justify themselves, and the New York Americans...
...Toronto, night before they played Chicago, the Americans defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 2-to-1. Emms (Americans) received a gash on his head which required seven stitches...
Goalies who have been seriously injured once are usually too wary of the puck to be of much use thereafter. Chabot proved an exception. Traded to Toronto, he helped that team win the Stanley Cup in 1932, the following year guarded its net throughout the longest hockey game on record (2 hr., 44 min.) which the Maple Leafs won, 1-to-0. Last year he played for the Montreal Canadiens. Before this season started he and three hockey-player friends went on a fishing trip. In a village saloon, one of them picked up a paper which contained the news...