Word: babes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the life of an innocent babe is at stake, there is no sacrifice too great to offer for its return. If there is anyone accused of "petty treason," it is a Nation or State which allows such a condition of lawlessness to exist...
Norfolk police tactfully kept hands off the case, but Coast Guard patrols and Baltimore police boats combed Chesapeake Bay in the belief that the babe was being held aboard some craft concealed up a bayou. Meantime, Boat-Builder Curtis evaded the police over Easter weekend, reappeared with the news that negotiations with the kidnappers were in their "semifinal stage...
...dullest bush-leaguer who figured in the baseball fiction of Ring Lardner had been much more rustic and addle-headed, he would have been very much like Floyd ("Babe"') Herman, outfielder for the Brooklyn Robins since 1927. Herman is celebrated for allowing fly-balls to drop on his head, for transforming a homerun into a triple play (by passing two other base-runners), for carrying a lighted cigar in his pocket. But, because he is a powerful batter and at times a competent fielder, he is by no means a liability to his team. Last week Babe Herman...
Further notice that the 1932 season was about to start was provided by a long-anticipated ceremony in St. Petersburg, Fla. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, near-beer-brewing owner of the New York Yankees, conferred with his most celebrated employe, George Herman ("Babe") Ruth. After much palaver and publicity, Ruth signed a one-year contract for $75,000. Then he tossed a half-dollar into an imitation Spanish wishing well and went to play in a practice game against the Boston Braves, in which he failed to make...
...prophesying in disgust. He returns to Agnes, a country girl who has kept loving him in spite of his career, and whom he has gotten with child. Anxiety before the child's birth makes him try his hand at prophecy again?to his horror he foresees a stillborn babe. When all-loving Agnes presents him with a bouncing boy, he renounces prophecy for good; goes back with her to his home farm to learn again the rustic mystery of making hay, rain or shine. The Clairvoyant is the March choice of the Book League of America. The Author...