Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watched the fancy skaters, wagged his grey beard with approval when Germany's Karl Schafer got the gold medal. ¶U. S. Columnist Westbrook Pegler arrived from London, reasoned that the miserable showing by the U. S. might be a benefit in disguise. Wrote he: "If the trip had been called off, the firm-jawed, clean-limbed, clear-eyed American athletes would have felt that they had been denied a great honor and privilege, to say nothing of a free trip to Europe, and might have blamed the Jews for that. Now, however, at most they demonstrated that they...
...makes $4,000 to Dr. Naismith's $3,000, promoted the idea of sending grey-haired old Dr. Naismith to Berlin to see the Olympic games next sum mer. Last week colleges which approved the idea added i? to the price of every basketball ticket. For his Berlin trip Inven tor Naismith, it was estimated, got $1,000. In 1891, Dr. Naismith hoped he had dis covered a pastime which would supply Y. M. C. A. boys with healthy exercise without encouraging roughness or bad tem per. Main feature of its extraordinary growth has been the tendency of basket...
Senate Investigator Charles Harry Payne: On a 9,000-mi. inspection trip, he found "lack of training, laxity, indifference and an almost complete lack of understanding of the requirements of a pilot." Near Charlottesville, Va., calling for weather data, he found the observer away, his wife at the post. Said she: "I reckon from where I'm sitting it's cloudy." Trembling with emotion, Witness Payne ended by shouting: "Take the Department of Commerce out of politics. You are gambling with human lives...
Toby pulled a large scrap book out of a dresser drawer and laughingly revealed clippings of the pictures taken on her recent trip to Cambridge to review the Hasty Pudding chorus. Her comments were enthusiastic. "They were all the grandest bunch of boys," she exclaimed. "The ones I met were all very nice and awfully good looking. They didn't seem at all embarassed to life their skirts for the cameramen when the pictures were taken. I really had a lot of fun and enjoyed every minute of my visit...
...been in character parts and his supporting cast is equally fine. Wallace Berry is the delightful, warm hearted semi - alcoholic who has asked Aline MacMahon to marry him for 18 years; only in vain, unfortunately, because in spite of her love for him, she cannot forgive his trip to New York those many years before and his wicked female companions while there...