Word: week-ends
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...next week-end found a highly-rated Dartmouth team sweeping into Cambridge and running amuck of a driving Crimson offense. It was sheer power which enabled the University eleven to carry the ball practically the whole length of the gridiron in the closing minutes of play and add the final touchdown to a glorious 19 to 7 victory. The Green score was the result of a clever aerial attack which frequently baffled the Cambridge defenders...
Died. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hambleton, 31, Lindbergh-friend, Baltimore banker and vice president of Pan American Airways, with J. Von der Heyden, sales director of Consolidated Instrument Co. of New York, and Mrs. Von der Heyden; at Wilmington, N. C., when their plane crashed on a week-end flight. Both men were expert flyers. Earlier last week Flyer Von der Heyden took New York Governor Roosevelt's wife on her first flight...
...Hoover week-end outing: A motor ride into the Maryland foothills of the Blue Ridge, where President Hoover got lost on a back road; an inspection of a farm patented in two 50-acre tracts by Andrew Hoover, the President's great-great-great-grandfather, in 1746 and 1748, prior to his migration to North Carolina in 1762. William Zepp now owns the site of the ancestral Hoover home...
Were planting sods and shrubs as easy as replacing divots, Newsgatherer Bath might have been on hand last week-end to see a big amphibian plane sweep down Penobscot Bay, scutter into the Morrow cove and give forth some of the most Hearstworthy people of the hour - Mrs. Morrow and her secretary, her daughters Anne, Elizabeth & Constance, and Pilot Lindbergh...
...Vagabond had found many things to admire in New England, but until recently the excellent qualities of its rural postmen had escaped his attention. But now his enthusiasm for that portion of its population is unbounded, and the reason may be found in the events of the last week-end...