Word: poles
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...silver rubles with his mighty fingers, to crack nuts in his hairy fist Nuncio Ratti could not duplicate those feats. His hands were, and are, a scholar's soft ones. ' Joint diversion of the Marshal and the Nuncio was chess, at which both are adept. The bold Pole favored vigorous attack. The astute Italian shifted his play between defense and attack. The Marshal won sufficiently often not to resent his opponent's superior intellect. Pope Pius XI has all the distinctive attributes of mind-scholarliness, intellectuality, intelligence. The doctorates he holds in philosophy, theology and canon...
...times John Chapman, impresario of U. S. six-day racing, promoter of races in Newark, Boston, Chicago, Providence, has been suspected of arranging an appeal to whatever foreign element is largest in the town where the race was being held. But recent races won by Frenchmen Letourner & Guinbretiere in Pole-filled Chicago have weakened such suspicion. In one way undoubtedly Tsar Chapman can shape his races-he teams the riders. Anyone who objects to being teamed the way he wants has no way of protesting, since Chapman controls the business. He rode races himself till 1903, then managed tracks...
...create, oftener still-born than their flesh-&-blood brothers. In a lifetime of creative endeavor, few artists or writers succeed in making one character come alive for longer than it takes to read the book, see the picture. Artist Arno's pictured people are at the opposite pole from immortality, but at least two of them have already had a life of their own: the late famed Whoops Sisters, who appeared four years ago in Manhattan's New Yorker. These two disreputable old harridans, whooping with unseemly mirth at rowdy subtleties, made Artist Arno's reputation. Says...
...Scott Antarctic Expedition of 1901. The couple went to live in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Mrs. Shackleton knew many important people. Among her friends was the Earl of Rosebery, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister (1894-95). Four years after the marriage, Explorer Shackleton turned again toward the South Pole. This time he was commanding officer. When he returned the next year after having been within 97 miles of the pole, England made a knight of him. Five years later, he set out again. Terrific ice packs wrecked his ship. He and his men camped on an ice floe...
Best cinematography?Willard Van der Veer and Joseph T. Rucker (With Byrd at the South Pole...