Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does TIME insist upon playing up the moron from Louisiana by draping his funny ace on the front page of the greatest news...
...Manhattan Rotary club, War Ace Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was introduced as a winner of the Distinguished Service Cross with nine palms, the Croix de Guerre with four palms, the Congressional Medal of Honor, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Snorted Ace Rickenbacker: "It is true that I could come here with a chest full of medals. But I do not wear the ribbons. ... I have no respect for decorations of that kind. I respect only the awards for peacetime service...
...just been released by the St. Louis Cardinals. Wearing a pair of trousers much too short for him, Vance showed enough of his oldtime speed in practice to impress Manager Casey Stengel, became sure of a job when, two days later, the Dodgers' current pitching ace, Van Lingle Mungo, strained a muscle in his shoulder...
...chubby, energetic Charles Meigs Biddle Cadwalader. director without pay of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences, was given the 1934 Bok award for civic service is that he manages to persuade moneyed sportsmen to go specimen-hunting for the Academy at their own expense. One of his ace sportsmen is Brooke Dolan II, who in the remote mountains of western China shot four specimens of takin, a rare antelope with thick, curling horns, yellow-gold forehead, yellow mane, black muzzle. Last week the Academy had the four on exhibition, only habitat group of takin in the world...
...Ingalls won pitching honors from the other eight moundsmen Coach Chauncey took with him, in the Georgetown game, and Al Collwell shone as an ace batwielder, rising to the height of his form in the game against Morristown to make four runs and six hits out of six times...