Word: annually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sophisticated New Yorkers, accustomed to the finesse of their annual Skating Club Carnivals, have been slow to warm up to professional, itinerant ice shows. Last week, however, when the Ice Follies of 1940 hit town, New Yorkers crammed Madison Square Garden to the rafters for six nights, whistled and stomped like yokels. For suddenly, it seemed, the variety-show-on-ice had crystallized into first-rate entertainment...
...Wisconsin's Green Bay Packers: the annual post-season play-off for the national professional football championship; crushing the New York Giants, defending champions, 27-to-0; before a capacity crowd of 32,000, some of whom paid $30 a pair for their seats; at State Fair Grounds, Milwaukee. Held in nearby Milwaukee because Green Bay's Stadium could seat only 23,000, the game's $83,000 gate assured each victorious Packer $704, each Giant...
Last fortnight U. S. college fraternities held their annual interfraternity conference in Manhattan. The delegates had a few headaches. Fraternities found it harder these days to fill their expensive houses, make ends meet. The burgeoning of new house plans in private Eastern colleges, the current revival of dormitory building in State universities made their own houses less dazzling. At Wisconsin, dormitories had gone so far as to take over a time-honored fraternity function: they gave their boys instruction in table manners...
...older America. . . . "The 1940 New Yorker Album" assembles an excellent selection of the most unique cartoon humor in the world. . . . James Thurber's "The Last Flower" has been causing a mild furor of late, with its poetic parable of the future of our civilization. Unequivocally recommended. . . "U.S. Camera Annual: 1940" is edited by Steichen which means that it should be the best available, and is . . . Hyman Levy's "Modern Science" is a difficult but rewarding study of the physical sciences. . . Agnes Newton Keith's "Land Below the Wind" is a chronicle of four years in North Bornce. . . . Phil Stong...
When the third annual Guardian Conference meets in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room this morning to hear President Conant open the discussion on propaganda, it will be the beginning of what promises to be the best of the series of meetings with a star-studded collection of authors, professors, and journalists participating...