Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue-book gloom and the lecture-hall mold was scattered to the four winds, when instead of hearing the liturgical voice, entoning "gentlemen, you have five more minutes." they saw drum majorettes tripping down the pavement with a stately following...
Last summer more than 11,000 visitors were taken on tours through the University buildings, and in addition 140,000 people saw the exhibits at the University museums, officials estimate...
Sedate Parisians strolling in the Bois one day last fortnight were startled by unfamiliar sounds: the music of ukuleles and harmonicas, wild cries of "Yipee! Yipee!" Drawn by these noises into the Bagatelle Polo Grounds, they saw about 30 young men & women in outlandish foreign dress-broad-brimmed hats and broad-legged pants, loudly checked shirts and brass-studded belts. They were riding horses and twirling ropes...
...Wirt Ross, a shrewd fight manager, saw possibilities in Henry Jackson, offered Promoter Cox $250 for the skinny-shanked featherweight's contract. The first thing Wirt Ross did was to change Henry Jackson's name to Henry Armstrong. The name worked like a charm. Henry Armstrong became a two-fisted swinger who went into the ring punching and never stopped until he knocked out his exhausted opponent...
Among the spectators who saw him defeat Baby Arizmendi, onetime featherweight champion, at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field 22 months ago was Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Impressed, Singer Jolson agreed to lend his friend, Fight Manager Eddie Mead, $5,000 to buy Armstrong's contract. Under the management of Mead, Armstrong piled up 37 victories in a row, became the outstanding boxer...