Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John L. was a hotshot around the coal tipples, but on the sidewalks of New York he turned out to be strictly a stiff with a bum pitch. Last week, after eight days of trying, Lewis' flugelmen were badly beaten and muttering that they'd try again. They didn't say when...
Politicians, hangers-on and reporters crowded into the smoke-filled city clerk's office in Jersey City. They were all assembled for a little democratic ritual. Twenty-five cops, loyal subjects of Boss Frank Hague, hovered around the old grey City Hall. Inside, Deputy City Clerk Ben Rosengard grasped the octagonal walnut box, spun it several times, then carefully pulled out a card. His announcement was just what the boys had expected: the magic box gave Boss Hague's foolproof Democratic machine the top place on the city-election ballot, as it had every time but once...
...other is bowman Mike Scully, who is becoming almost a tradition around Newell, this being his fourth year on the Varsity. Scully, incidentally, is the only oarsman who has been gaining weight in the last month. He has out on 12 pounds while his compatriots have been trimming down their winter insulation...
...almost wreeks her daughter's marriage. As her sister-in-law and complete opposite, June Walker is bouncy and very funny. The kind of woman who was once called "ente as a bug's car," she is now pudgy and painted, given to wearing fluffy mules around the house because of "foot trouble" but who nevertheless takes samba lessons. Most of the time Miss Walker is on stage she is "simply in stitches" at her husband's jokes (in many ways she is wiser than Miss Wood's fretful female), and the audience is almost that way because of Miss...
...which successful plays are almost invariably concerned with neurotics or eccentrics (the only recently successful 'domestic comedy,' that was not a farce, I can recall was "Life with Father," which mainly exploited Father's eccentricities, after all), it's rather nice to have some old ordinary people around...