Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning, her escort was disguised as the Bishop's current antagonist, ex-Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (TIME, Dec. 15). Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons chose to dress as "Ladies of the Temperance Union." Composer Cole Porter went as an oldtime footballer, his wife as a housemaid. Princess Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst wore the robes...
...styling his dramatic venture an "indulgence," Mr. Bynner chose an aptly wise term, and one which gave him at the outset an abundant license to exercise his poetical imagination fancy free. Unbound by too-rigid dramatic requirements, he has created a gay satire in a distinctly individual vein, exercising an almost abandoned liberty in its construction, flaunting, if not openly violating, certain established dramatic conventions. Scenes change with an almost alarming rapidity; characters come and go with startling swiftness, often, we fear, leaving voids behind, for most of them are too delightfully drawn to be casually cast aside as mere...
...letter to a great poet and asked him to suggest a new one. The poet advised them to keep the one they had. They did. Unlike the Medicine Hatters, a large block of the citizenry of Linoleumville, Staten Island (pop.: 2,200), dissatisfied with their town's name, chose not to write to a famed poet for advice but to settle the question by ballot. Last week they did. Proposed were ten names (although any citizen was privileged to suggest any other name he fancied): Linoleumville, Travis, Melvin, Victory Heights, Scotstown, Berkley, Long Neck, Travisville, Mellburg, Carteret...
...bald head of Sportswriter Grantland Rice hovers the crown of All-American arbiter that was worn by the late great Walter Camp. But other U. S. sportswriters did not wait to hear the selections over which he was mulling for Collier's magazine last week in Chicago. They chose their own 1930 All-American football teams. Their consensus was as follows...
Last week he named an All-Big-Three team based on 26 years football experience. He chose Tom Shevlin (Y) and Tack Hardwick (H), ends; Ham (Congressman) Fish (H) and Century Milstead (Y), tackles; Stan Pennock (H) and Fiske Brown (H), guards; Winslow Lovejoy (Y), centre; Lyle Richeson (Y). quarterback; Marvin Stevens (Y) and Eddie Mahan (H), halfbacks; Bill Mallory (Y), fullback...