Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quiet. Seven years ago next March Herbert Hoover left the White House. On a grey, gusty afternoon he stood stoically on the rear platform of the train that was to take him away from Washington, facing a subdued crowd that had gathered to see him leave. His pale face was heavily lined; to newspapermen still sensitive enough to recognize a human tragedy in a political battle, he seemed, not like a statesman who has lost, but like a man who had suffered some personal grief as real as the death of a friend. The inauguration ceremonies were over...
Frederick Doell of the German Consulate climbed the subway steps into the chill, clear Brooklyn afternoon, trudged eight blocks to a quiet, dead-end street, turned off at the second house in a row of five brick-and-frame cottages...
...Swiss comics. Frick & Frack have been a scream ever since they first skated together in their native Basle three years ago. Frick, whose real name is Werner Groebli, was a student at the University of Zurich. Frack, born Hansruedi Mauch, was studying at a business school. One holiday afternoon they set to burlesquing some of their pompous neighbors who acted as though they owned the rink. Onlookers tittered merrily...
Five Harvard alumni, forming one of the greatest squash teams ever assembled, will cross racquets with an up-and-coming Crimson Varsity on the Hemenway Gymnasium courts at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon...
...Harvard Varsity lineup will include Captain Kim Canavarro, Jim Rousmaniere, John Palfrey, Bill Wood, and Don Marvin. The feature match of the afternoon will probably pit Canavarro against three-time titlist Glidden...