Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curtseying patronesses, strictly chaperoned sub-debs, of its absurd blue laws (or else why does it not change them?), and the like. Fortunately, Chicago is young. It is systematically planned. Unbound by braking customs, it is not afraid to progress. Indeed, it has advanced in great strides. Walter J. Watson...
...Kelley defeated R. M. Saul, M. D. Whitney defeated W. H. Lee, D. S. De Bard defeated R. C. Brinkley. At 3 o'clock: O. S. A. Sprague defeated M. K. Ruddock, P. E. Geter defeated F. B. Tolles, R. B. Graves defeated A. A. Ballantine, W. J. Watson defeated E. R. Spinney, John Doll defeated Taber De Forest...
...Tough little Thomas ("Seaman Tom") Watson. British featherweight champion, who was humiliated last fortnight when N. Y. Athletic Commissioners publicly doubted whether he was competent to oppose first-rate U. S. fighters: a 12-round bout-after being knocked down three times in the first two rounds-against sluggish Fidel La Barba, one-time world's flyweight champion, who was a 4-to-1 favorite; in Madison Square Garden. Seaman Tom's reward: a fight against Cuban Kid Chocolate (who was last week being refused entry into the U. S. by immigration authorities), for the featherweight championship...
Marriage Revealed. Elizabeth Jane Gerard, Manhattan socialite niece of War-time U. S. Ambassador to Germany James Watson Gerard; and Walter B. Levering, Yale footballer, oil scion; as of last June. Because of Yale's rule against married undergraduates, the couple concealed the marriage even from their parents. Last week, the football season past, the groom resigned from Yale...
Guffawed when Democratic Leader Robinson referred to the "death" of Republican Leader Watson instead of Colorado's Waterman. Said Lame Duck Watson: "I'm just politically dead...