Word: vault
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Death-it was beautiful!" The ladies of the Court, by express command of the Dowager Queen, mourned her not in black but in a color she had described as violet Cardinal. While her body was laid last week beside that of King Ferdinand in the royal vault, her heart was cut out by her instructions, to be placed in a mauve-lined silver casket, enshrined in the chapel at Marie's beloved country Castle Balcic...
...this season. Outstanding sprinter is Adrian Talley, who lived up to expectations by winning the 100-yd. dash last week. Outstanding pole vaulters, curiously enough, are another pair of "Trojan Twins," Loring Day and Kenneth Dills. Both soar 14 ft., 3 in. with ease, and Day's recent vault of 14 ft., 7 in. is the top pole-vaulting performance of the year. Although Day & Dills kept in trim during the transcontinental trip by chinning on a bar stretched across the Pullman aisle, they could not break a record last week, tied with two others for first place...
...Republicans from drafting Dewey for Governor this autumn.* His chances of being elected to that office would be comparable to those of famed Charles Seymour Whitman, who in 1915, after convicting Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal, ascended from D. A. to Governor in one swift vault. Should Tom Dewey perform that feat in this day of dearth in Republican manpower, by 1940 the Party which used to be called Grand as well as Old may be glad to consider him for President...
There were Varsity men competing, but not in their specialties. Footballer Mike Cohen was a powerhouse in the sprints and swimming captain Rusty Green hood toyed with the pole-vault and high-jump, getting fourth in the vault. Swimmers McKay and Barker, hoopsters Lowman and Sullivan, and a fair sprinkling of fencers and athletic secretaries were in the running all afternoon...
...Pole Vault-Won by A. G. Trope ocC. (Eliot) 11 ft.: second-tie between S. L. Madey '40 (Eliot). A. B. Carlson '39 (Lowell), and E. R. Greenhood, Jr., '39 (Lowell) all at 10 ft., 8 in.: fifth-J. E. Jones, Jr. '38 (Kirkland...