Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week long memories in Washington turned back to one chill morning in January, two years ago. That morning at Jersey City Franklin Roosevelt boarded a train to Washington to confer over War debts, a matter which the President-Hoover-thought of some importance. After he had eaten luncheon in his private car, Mr. Roosevelt's advisers gathered around the table. Of the five who were there to counsel him on the responsibilities he was to assume, several were quite obscure. There was a balloon-jowled professor, Raymond Moley, and a handsome but obscure young doctor (Ph. D.), Rexford...
...hundred and ten years old, by her own well-authenticated account, is Dr-Marie Charlotte deGolier Davenport, perennial lecturer on How to Keep Happy, who boarded a train in Philadelphia, stepped spryly off in Manhattan. Unperturbed by the fact that she had no money, Dr. Davenport made herself at home on a piano stool in the sitting room of the Travelers Aid Society. When newshawks arrived, she spun around on the stool to play a tune called "Dance of London" which she had composed that morning. Then up she jumped, threw a kiss toward the ceiling, cried...
...roof, when dust covers every object and piles high in neglected corners, irritation reaches a fever pitch. No blame can be attached to the goodies, they do remarkably well considering their human limitations. Rushing about the room, duster and mep in hand, with the speed of an express train is the only possible way for a goodie to clean a three to eight room suite within the arbitrary time limit of 15 minutes. It is the so-called "economy" which is to be criticized...
Bound for Florida, Mrs, Alfred Emanuel Smith was standing in a compartment on the Seaboard Air Liner Orange Blossom Special, when the train rounded a curve near Richmond, lurched, threw her heavily against a window ledge. Her husband summoned a doctor who treated her hastily, told her she could go on. Twenty-four hours later, suffering "from a broken arm and nervous shock. Mrs. Smith bedded herself in a West Palm Beach hospital, stayed there four days...
...swim. He promptly adopted a radical method to improve the physical condition of his squad: gymnasium exercises, which most coaches then thought made swimmers musclebound. Stocky, shock-haired, absorbed in his vocation, Bob Kiphuth found himself recognized as the ablest U. S. swimming coach when he was chosen to train the 1928 U. S. Olympic team. In 1932, functioning in the same capacity, he was libeled by Cartoonist Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley who magnified the fact that Kiphuth was never on a swimming team into the statement that he could not swim at all. Last week, Coach Kiphuth...