Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quigley are generally liberal about letting surface-injury victims go back into the fray. Open gashes, which bother some spectators, are stitched up right on the bench, adhesive tape is slapped over the wound and the player rushed back into the game if he's needed. "Professional hockey players aren't the only ones who compete with stitches in them." says Cox, "but the whole thing is pretty ugly business and we don't like to talk much about it. From the medical angle, it isn't too dangerous to play with a stitched-up cut or a reset nose...
...representatives of the hemisphere's nations watched Brazil's massive military Independence Day parade. In his graceful speech before Congress, Harry Truman had mentioned nearly every Brazilian statesman, and had made cariocas swell with pride. Standing and applauding that speech, a Brazilian had paused to exclaim: "Aren't we having a good time with all this...
...story that shambled out of a Manhattan night court was enough to jerk a tear from any baseball fan's eye. Of the 18 bleary Bowery bums charged with loitering "while apparently intoxicated," one gave the name of Marquard. The judge had tenderly inquired: "Aren't you the famous 'Rube?'" Yes, the prisoner croaked, he was "Ol' Rube," who won 19 straight games for the Giants back in 1912. The record had never been broken, but "Rube" was broke. "The magistrate," said an A.P. dispatch, "took a $5 bill from his billfold, handed...
...French and all other designers guard their new styles from each other like atomic-bomb secrets (no customers can get into Sophie's salon unless they have been "introduced" and she is sure they aren't there to crib her ideas). But after their showings they are glad to have American style-cribbers buy them to copy; it is a large part of their business. Sophie was returning from such a Paris mission in 1931, when, on the last day out, Adam called her by ship-to-shore phone from New York: "Hold your breath...
...Nathan Straus had come to see him. When Mrs. Straus, who was a dear old lady, saw Mr. Murphy, she looked up at him in her most appealing manner and said, 'Mr. Murphy, you are going to make my boy the judge of the Court of Appeals, aren't you?' (She referred, of course, to her son-in-law. Irving Lehman...