Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tell me whether your writers chuckle to themselves with a delicious feeling of superiority when they put something unexpectedly extra on the ball, as for example...
Prancy as a Blue Grass colt, "Happy" Chandler is a natural politician. In politics he has the easy grace of Joe DiMaggio coasting under a long fly-ball, the same talent of making the tough ones look easy. To him handshaking is not a nuisance but a passionate delight. He knows the first name (and even the children's names) of nearly every person in Kentucky of voting age-not just because it's good political business, but because he likes to know. To him speechmaking is no grave statement of solemn issues, but a chance to play...
...claimed saving of $743,000,000 annually, saw it thrown out because it would involve firing thousands of railroad employes; in 1934 he paid some $15,000 damages for clopping behind the ear with a polo mallet an aged riding master who had ridden him off the ball in a pick-up polo match...
...strong Williams team, a narrow field, a ball lighter than the one to which they are accustomed, and a high wind all added together to bring defeat in an overtime period to the Crimson soccer team Saturday afternoon, 3 to 2, at Williamstown...
From then on the Stahleymen were somewhat erratic, failing to reach pay dirt again until the third quarter, although they had possession of the ball about nine-tenths of the time. Worcester's only offensive drive in the entire contest came after the half, with a couple of end runs which accounted for slight gains...