Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago. In Chicago's Fronton are signs "No betting allowed.'' Near them is where bets (called "contributions"' to make them legal) are placed. Alarmed by the rumor that 27 penniless bettors had committed suicide in one week in Havana, the State's Attorney of Cook County once tried with no success to have jai alai banned. Usual odds-on favorite for individual bets is Domingo Ugalde, called "The Fox" because of the sly cuts, curves, angles, backspins he knows how to use. He began playing when he was nine in Marianao, Cuba. He speaks broken...
Last month at a Washington meeting of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Advisory Board a resolution to reduce the bag limit was passed. Last week Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde announced that upon his recommendation the duck-bag will be reduced from 25 to 15 per day; the geese-bag from 8 to 4. The possession limit will be 30 ducks, 8 geese...
...Department of Agriculture becomes increasingly alarmed at the high mortality rate of wild fowl (TIME, Dec. 16); Its advisory council of sportsmen persistently urge a lowering of the bag limit, more game preserves. Last week impetus was given to their cause by an announcement from the National Association of Audubon societies that great numbers of water fowl are being destroyed by oil on coastal waters. The oil residue, which comes from coastwise ships, gathers in the bays and inlets where the ducks rest. Once it reaches a duck, the oil glues his feathers together and, unable to swim, he dies...
...Last week the City of Washington became a game preserve. Wild ducks were lured from their natural feeding grounds on the wild celery flats of the Potomac by scattering grain in the tidal basin, Washington's sanitary device near the Washington Monument...
Famed actors and vaudevillians frequently gather and perform for the financial sake of some sweet charity, but musicians are supposedly more serious, isolated folk who do not indulge in such mass gestures. Thus it was contrary to precedent last week when, before a Manhattan audience of some 3,000, Soprano Lucrezia Bori permitted herself to be hoisted up on a piano by Pianist Ernest Schelling and to sit, swinging her pretty legs, singing Spanish songs. Pianists José Iturbi, Harold Bauer, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Harold Samuel, John Erskine, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff formed a three-team relay...