Word: babes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Middleweights Vince Dundee and Babe Risko fought ten uneventful rounds. When the officials awarded the decision to Risko, the crowd booed. Boxing commissioners promptly ordered the decision reversed, had Dundee declared winner...
...Babe Ponsonby is named George for His Majesty, St. Lawrence for the mighty river and Neuflize for his late maternal French grandfather, an exceedingly rich Paris banker. For days Canadian papers conjectured whether George St. Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby was likely to burst out crying during the Speech from the Throne, seemed to rather hope he would. Instead the Babe proved himself a Bessborough, did nothing, said nothing, with dignity. Lady Bessborough, gowned by Maggy Rouff in blue and silver lame. made an able substitute Queen Mary, her throat roped with pearls, her head regally supporting a tiara. In legal fiction...
...York, Dec. 13--As owners of the National and American Leagues ended their annual meetings tonight, rumor spread that Babe Ruth is headed for Cleveland and will manage the Indians...
...Banzai Babe!" they cried. "May you live 10,000 years!" For the harassed U. S. Ambassador this was indeed a lucky break. Mr. Ruth is not merely touring Japan. With a troupe of American Leaguers led by Connie Mack he is barnstorming the Far East de luxe. Seventeen games will be played in Japan. It would be naive to suppose that Japanese baseball frenzy for baseball's Babe will sway public opinion, but last week it did ease tension. The Ginza broke out in a rash of Stars & Stripes. As they cheered Mr. Ruth and milled around him for autographs...
...days later 65,000 fans, among them Ambassador and Mrs. Grew, watched the opening game in which Tokyo University alumni (there are no professional baseballers in Japan) batted for the Empire, after Marquis Okuma, president of the Japan Baseball League, pitched the first ball. When the Babe hit only a single, though his team won 17-to-1, Japanese sportsmen politely said that it must be because Meiji Stadium is so very, very large and their fielders had stood so very, very far back to catch all the Bambino's terrific deliveries. Next day Mr. Ruth again hit only...