Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little work, much fun was planned for the 800 delegates of 60 countries attending this latest four-day congress. From Germany came 200 delegates, from Rumania 30, from Rightist Spain 20. The U. S. was represented-unofficially-by five delegates, chief of whom was former Track Athlete Gustavus Town Kirby, treasurer of the last U. S. Olympic committee, for 35 years chairman of the advisory Intercollegiate Athletic Association, president of the First World Congress for Recreation. Largely responsible for a big amusement program was the athletic, sporty Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace who is also president of the After-Work...
...think. He believes it is better for a boy to learn French by formal methods in the U. S. than by talking with Frenchmen in Paris, for a boy who learns by the second method "has had no more mental discipline than a little street Arab in a foreign town." Still stanchly Tory, he sums up his social views: "Truly the future has less to fear from individual than from cooperative selfishness...
...years after Francis Ormond French of Newport, R. I., lost his fortune ($500,000) in a stockmarket crash, he earned publicity and $17 by driving a Manhattan taxicab for three days. In 1934, his elder daughter Ellen married John Jacob Astor III. Two years later Mr. French wrote for Town & Country a so-called expose of top-flight society. Last year he let it be known that Daughter Ellen had offered him $25,000 if he would stop writing such things as a proposed book called On the Cuff. He refused the offer, has yet to publish the book. Last...
...battalion of Bersaglieri, crack, sharpshooting troops of the Italian Army, was trudging along a dusty road near the town of Faenza one day last week when it was overtaken by an official automobile. At the head of the column the car stopped. Out stepped Premier Mussolini, nattily decked in a snow-white uniform of the Fascist militia. The 54-year-old Duce took his place in front of the battalion, challenged the soldiers to a one-mile trot into town...
Eighteen miles south of St. Augustine, Fla. is a brand new town, Marineland, where last week Marine Studios, Inc. opened a mammoth, $500,000 aquarium. Surrounded by palmetto trees and tropical shrubbery, the aquarium, world's largest, consists of two adjacent, open-air, steel and concrete tanks. The larger one is rectangular-100 by 40 ft. and 18 ft. deep; the other, an 11-ft.-deep, circular tank, is 75 ft. in diameter. Along the walls of both tanks are some 200 portholes...