Word: australians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Australian Davis Cuppers: the Interzone Final; defeating a team of Yugoslavians ; four matches to one; at Chestnut Hill, Mass. This week the Australians meet U. S. tennists in the Challenge (final) Round at Haverford...
...went to the beach at n :30. There he stood for 15 minutes, knee-deep on the hissing shingle. After his circulation was thus methodically aroused, he plunged in, swam past the breakers, churned up & down parallel to the beach for 45 minutes, ably swimming side stroke, breast stroke, Australian crawl. Then he went to lunch (fruit only) at the moderately swank Dunes Club, then back to the beach to sun on a mattress, read (Grapes of Wrath) through dark glasses, listen to radio newscasts, until 5 o'clock. He swam for an hour again before returning...
Roundly Das Schwarze Korps rapped those who think the present return to corsets, bustles, "ribbons, lace and pleats" would fill the bill. Corsets are bad for women's health, especially if pregnant. As for hats: "How could a woman look well with an odd Australian stork perched on a beer mat on top of her head?" But the editors pulled their punches to meet feminine critics, explained earnestly: "All this is no fulmination against lipstick, powder and silk stockings; quite the contrary. . . . Every woman should be beautiful; every woman should have the opportunity to accentuate her natural charms...
Seven years ago descendants of the owners of the old whaleship John Carver formed American Whaling Company, sent a small "floating factory" to the Australian fisheries. In 1937 testy, Danish-born Hans J. Isbrandtsen of New York City (Isbrandtsen-Moller Co., shipping), founded Western Operating Corp. with the help of Norwegian-born Texas Corp. Board Chairman "Cap" Torkild Rieber, Danish-born General Motors President William S. Knudsen and others. For nearly $1,000,000 he bought the 12, 395-ton former U. S. Navy auxiliary ship Ulysses, converted it into one of the most modern whale refineries afloat and dispatched...
...they might be fascist plotters because they talked with von Falkenhausen. Madame Chiang Kaishek, with whom the poets took tea, was "for all her artificiality a great heroic figure," but the Generalissimo was "bald" and "mild-looking." We laughed as we pictured Chiang, Madame and Donald [Chiang's Australian adviser] flying frantically about the country by aeroplane . . . clearing out the drains in one city, buttoning up the coats in another, starting a trachoma clinic in a third...