Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four maiden ladies and 71 wide-hipped matrons, who looked as though their lives revolved around lemon pies and peonies, gathered around the first tee of New York's Westchester Country Club last week, chattering like magpies and nervously fanning the air with their drivers. Stretched ahead of them were 36 holes of golf, a two-day tournament to determine the best U. S. lady golfer between the ages of 50 and 70. Those with handicaps of 14 or less competed in Class A, those handicapped at 15 to 25 in Class B, from 25 up in Class...
...characteristically American as ice-cream sodas, bathing-beauty parades and The Star-Spangled Banner, the World Series agitated many a U. S. citizen last week as the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees faced one another in the 35th annual four-out-of-seven game tournament that ends the U. S. baseball season...
...farm in Pall Mall, Tenn., on the 20th anniversary of his Wartime feat (killing 20 German soldiers and capturing 132 singlehanded), Sergeant Alvin Cullom York offered a plan for peace: "I believe if we want to stop Hitler we must knock him off the block...
...whole country-snatches of history, honky-tonk Chinatown music from San Francisco, sentimental plantation songs from the South, descriptions of Boulder Dam and Bonneville Flats, the U. S. national anthem (La Bannière Par-semèe d'Etoiles}. Three broadcasts are devoted to New York City, describing everything from Harlem's dance halls to Wall Street ("la maison Morgan, voilá guelque chose...
...Ackere is a showman and artist who speaks English with no accent whatsoever. Together they work fast and smoothly. M. Friedland's most cherished souvenir of U. S. culture, which he says he will show to every one in France, is a folder of matches from a New York hotel. The matches are fully-dressed cardboard maidens. Of them M. Friedland says with Gallic awe (his assistant's translation) : "America, it is wonderful. Here it is only needed to rub the young lady in order to make the fire...