Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other eminences are better marked: his Oak Park high school football teams, 1910 to the first public exhibits of his own paintings in and 1913; the days of "Red" Grange at Illinois finally the present gridiron season, because it 25th consecutive year as Illinois coach. On this anniversary, he looks back on a record of seven. Ten championships in 16 years. At the easel, he earned distinction for his spontaneous, bold, pastels and oils...
...heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged by the Washington correspondents. The music, with no particular motif to follow, becomes largely a utilitarian accompaniment to fit the rhyme...
Tunis' chief claim to fame is his history of the Harvard Class of '11: "Was College Worthwhile?" He stresses his belief that "the big shots of the gridiron are not the sole test of high athletic calibre...
...have packed all the punch to be expected from a self-made man who has risen so far and so fast. The Efficiency Expert apparently got the impression over that something distinctly more official was expected than for the Duke of Windsor and President Roosevelt simply to eat a Gridiron Club Dinner and for the Duchess simply to dine at the Women's National Press Club. Out of the Melting Pot meanwhile poured thousands & thousands of letters about the Duke and Duchess from U. S. citizens to the White House, the State Department, the Interior and Labor Departments...
...Roosevelt would be away on a lecture tour. At latest reports the President seemed to be waiting for U. S. opinion to crystallize, the higher officials of the British Embassy in Washington were icicles of frigid reserve, and cables from the Duke and Duchess had declined with thanks the Gridiron dinner and Women's Press Club invitations...