Word: y
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico City's Balderas Street, few blocks from Central Park, stands a big, modern, five-story Y. M. C. A. building. It used to be chocked full daily by 3,400 members having fun at concerts, lectures, sports. Last week a visitor might have wandered through every one of its 75 bedrooms, through its grand hall, its two gymnasiums, its barbershop, swimming pool, library, restaurant and met not a living soul...
...Y officials said the trouble all started with a sassy kitchen hand named Severe Moreno. Y employes blamed Stewardess Dolores Uranga and Secretary Alberto Salinas Carranza, technical adviser to Mexico's Street Cleaning Department and nephew of onetime Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. Last month Severo Moreno sassed Stewardess Dolores Uranga, not for the first time. Secretary Carranza sentenced him to an eight-day suspension without pay, called a policeman to help enforce the sentence. Intolerable was that affront to the polysyllabic dignity of the Union de Obreros y Empleados de las YMCA, which consists of 77 cooks, waiters, janitors...
...Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered 30 bagpiping contests during the last nine years, won 25 of them. Honors in caber-tossing (throwing forward in a half circle a log about the size of a small telegraph pole) went to an Armonk, N. Y. clansman named George Ross, after the caber had been sawed down several times so contestants could balance it. Further prizes were awarded to the best-dressed piper; the best-dressed lady in Highland costume; the best Highland flingers; winners at soccer, high-jumping, sack-racing and novice piping...
...hawk'' landed, turned out to be the sailplane Albatross II in which Richard du Pont made a world's record distance flight fortnight ago (TIME, July 9). Out stepped Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite, to explain he had just soared 80 mi. from Elmira. N. Y. where the fifth annual contest of the Soaring Society of America closed last week...
Married. Barbara Kent, youngest daughter of Artist Rockwell Kent; and Alan Carter, Manhattan musician; at "Asgaard," Artist Kent's home near Ausable Forks, N. Y...