Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious election was held last week in Chicago. It was preceded by no oratory, either to praise, defame or nominate a candidate. There were, officially, no candidates. Nonetheless Rt. Rev. Dr. James De Wolf Perry, Bishop of Rhode Island, was elected presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., became thereby the U. S. analog to Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury...
...James De Wolf Perry, 58, of Providence, R. I., was born in Germantown, Pa., son of a rector, descendant of Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. He attended Germantown Academy, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Mass.). He occupied several parishes in Massachusetts and Connecticut, married (1908) Edith Dean Weir, violin-playing and painting daughter of onetime Dean John Ferguson Weir of the School of Fine Arts, Yale University. He is president of the trustees of St. George's School, Newport, R. I. At his summer home...
Squash. Red walled court; racquet like a tennis racquet but smaller, rounder; ball like a tennis ball but heavier, faster. Before young Harry Wolf got on the court with Rowland Haines to play for the National Amateur Squash Tennis Championship, Rowland Dufton, the professional at the New York Athletic Club, taught him a special stroke to use in that one match -a stroke which Dufton said would win for him. It was a drive straight into the front wall corners that skidded off the back wall and dropped dead. "Mix it up with a soft game," Dufton advised him. "Hyde...
...Wolf said he understood. Undoubtedly, putting out Fillmore Hyde, four times national champion, in the semifinal had given him some confidence. But he could not help remembering that he had played Haines in four tournaments this year, and that Haines had won three of the matches. He started hitting hard, saving his new stroke till he got the match moving. He got ahead of Haines and switched to a soft game. It was a mistake. A devastating smasher, and the best half-volleyer among U.S. amateurs, Haines turned Wolf's gentle, strategic shots into points for himself, and caught...
...Whiting's concert, touching a field of music heretofore not included in the concerts. Mr. Whiting at the piano assisted by John Barclay, baritone, will present the following program: Invocazione d'Orifero Peri Ber la gloria d'adorar Bonocino Vergin, tutto amor Danza danza Durante Gesang Weyla's Wolf Der Tambour Allerseelen Strauss Ich trage meine, minne Zueigning Chanson Triste Duparc Lamento Colloque Sentimentale Debussy Ballade des femmes de Paris Claire Dragoons Old Irish The Light of the Moon The Next Market Day Savourneen Dheelish The Alarm