Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Course college students are good dancers and get a lot of fun out of it But it's really a national sport. Comedown to Roseland Gardens in New York sometime and watch the tailor and the sailor tango. As a matter of fact, this district around have is one of the very best for dancing: people really mix here, you know...
...Hull, England, fortnight ago, a crowd of about 300 gathered in the early morning before the prison yard to watch the flagstaff. Many were praying. Two unarmed policemen with their thumbs stuck purposefully in their belts kept the crowd in order. At 9 o'clock a black flag broke out on the staff. By that signal spectators knew that, despite a blizzard of petitions to the Lord Mayor of Hull, to the Home Secretary, to King George himself, Mrs. Ethel Lille Major had died on the gallows for poisoning her truckdriver husband, first woman to be executed in England...
...their clothes. Both pleaded bashfulness. "It's like taking your first plunge. Once you're in, there's nothing to it," explained Fred Topel, manager of the establishment. Mr. Barr and Miss Brady remained clothed. Someone gave the policewoman a chair so that she could watch 20 minutes of ordinary calisthenics. After that "both men and women went into the pool entirely unclothed and swam about...
...onetime shoe-clerk, dancing master and salad oil salesman, Al Munro Elias became a baseball statistician in 1914. Sick with indigestion, he took time off from work to watch ball games, amused himself by reducing them to figures. His first successful venture as a professional was a series of pamphlets sold in saloons, men's stores and hotels. The New York Evening Telegram soon began to buy his figures. In 1917, the National League made Al Munro Elias its statistician. Fourteen years ago he began to supply papers with his most famed daily feature : the leading batters...
...Coral Gables, Fla., a crowd of 300 last week set out to watch Olin Dutra, U. S. Open Golf Champion, play his last round in the $12,500 Miami Biltmore Open tournament. Approaching the 17th green, Dutra and his gallery started across a wooden bridge over a canal that intersects the fairway just before the green. Amid a loud splitting of timber the bridge broke. With squeaks, yells, grunts, moans, Dutra and 20 members of the gallery were thrown into the water. Dutra clambered out, helped the others up the bank, lay down to rest for a moment, made...