Word: grips
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...week assembled in Manhattan for the second annual U. S. championship. The matches were played in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Among the 1,000 spectators was Bridge Expert Sidney Lenz, President of the American Ping-Pong Association, who 30 years ago introduced the full-hand grip, now used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved with the name of the champion...
...election for village president, State Senator Richey Graham, son-in-law of Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak of Chicago, saw an opportunity to break the Republicans' 16-year grip on Cicero. Mayor Cermak sent 230 policemen from Chicago to Cicero on election day to see that the voting took place without irregularities. Fifty Republican partisans were arrested the night before the balloting. Also arrested was Editor Lewis Cowen of the Cicero Tribune. He promptly sued the Chicago chief of detectives...
Tariffs. With the Sales Tax out of the way, the La Guardia-Doughton coalition dissolved and the House, exhausted by long sessions, depleted by grip, began casting about for other means to raise a Budget-balancing half billion dollars. First moves were...
...Guerre. In 1890 he was summoned to the General Staff at the Ministry of War. Here the dream of revanche took strategical form. "Adopting the offensive as the essential form of action, Foch's sequence of action was, first, to feel for one's enemy, then to grip him, finally to 'strike one supreme stroke on one point,' using one's reserves 'as a club'. . . This theory, essentially mechanistic or mathematical, was too simple for truth...
While Japan was tightening its grip on Manchuria last week, a baldish, blue- whiskered dissolute Russian scoundrel-brigand was plotting to tear another strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...