Word: around
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that I am working my way around the world, partly for a novel I am writing, to be called Sea Change, and partly for the experience itself...
Last week he visited Albert Davis Lasker, onetime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, at his Chicago home. He walked around the private Lasker golf links but swung no club. Newsmen asked him why he did not play. "I don't like golf," replied the Vice President who likes to watch horse-racing...
...first act of Broadway Nights a group of tinted chorines dance before a mammoth synthetic rosebush. In the second act the celebration is repeated for orchids. The cast is headed by Odette Myrtil, a rough-voiced Parisienne who makes pantherlike glides around the stage while playing cardiac tunes on her violin. This combination of music and motion is popular, but by any comparative standard the name of Laura Lee, the show's small, vivacious song-plugger, should also be featured...
...this season up to last weekend. In the old days, the good aver age hitter batted about 25% perfect (.250 in the tabulations). Today an average of .285 is only fair. About 116 batters in the two Big Leagues have surpassed .300 this year, with several of them up around .400.* A good average score used to be 4 runs to 3. A few weeks ago the St. Louis Nationals in a game with the Philadelphia Nationals made 10 runs in the first inning, 10 more in the fifth, 25 in the game. Pitcher Burleigh Grimes of the Pittsburgh club...
Cartoonist Bud Fisher (Mutt & Jeff) found many a stray dog last year on his newly-purchased Carmel, N. Y., estate. He ordered his Negro butler, James Bell, to get rid of them. This Butler Bell did, darkly, until only one dog was left. When, last week, he got around to this dog, Mr. Fisher's caretaker, Frank Candee, protested. Caretaker Candee had become attached to the dog. Butler Bell paid no heed, raised his rifle, killed the creature. Caretaker Candee, irate, got out a knife. Butler Bell, standing in the driveway, raised his gun again and fired five times more...