Word: babes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ranch and Trading Post," Corpus Christi ships cotton, with shrimp and oysters as sidelines. Port Aransas is the world's greatest crude oil shipping port and a famed fishing resort. Port Arthur, founded by John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, and Beaumont, birthplace of Athlete Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, form the world's biggest oil refining centre...
...have always felt my body to be beautiful and have kept it that way by never allowing myself to have an ugly thought about it." In Manhattan Edward Segal settled for $25 his $1,000 suit against the American League Baseball Club because a ball batted by George Herman ("Babe") Ruth hit him at Yankee Stadium in 1934. To the defense that some might consider it an honor to be hit by the world's homerun king, Justice Lester Lazarus sniffed : "No doubt, but the plaintiff could not appreciate the honor, as he was knocked un conscious...
...Brevity one of the rankest favorites (2-to-5) in Derby history, 70,000 people had jammed Louisville. There was a goodly turnout of the 17,000 Kentucky Colonels and Admirals whose titles had been abolished and then suddenly restored five days before the race. There was retired Baseballer Babe Ruth, whose pro fessional springtime duties had never permitted him to get to the Derby before...
...TIME, April 15, 1935). "Miss Mary" was absent from Louisville last week because her own charges were running at Jamaica, L. I. But to ride her-father's Derby entry, Bold Venture, she sent her contract apprentice jockey whom she herself had trained, tiny 18-year-old Ira ("Babe") Hanford. Four days before, at Jamaica, Jockey Hanford had brought Trainer Mary Hirsch her first double vic tory.* This time, in his first appearance in a major race, he was determined to bring Trainer Max Hirsch his first Derby though Bold Venture had never before won an important stake...
...York, the day's biggest crowd, 56,000, which included Mayor LaGuardia, onetime Mayor "Jimmy" Walker and George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, saw the New York Giants overpower their bitterest rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers...