Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night Widower James's dark-tressed, 22-year-old daughter Dorothy began her duties as Pennsylvania's First Lady. To the inaugural ball in magnificent Zembo Mosque thronged Pennsylvania's very fattest cats: ex-Senator Joseph L. Grundy, chairman of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association ; Oilman Joseph N. Pew Jr.; Publisher Moses Annenberg (who drank Coca-Colas with a pretty legislative secretary); John M. Flynn, who used to front for Joe Grundy at the State House. A figure new and interesting to Pennsylvanians was Colonel Carl L. Estes, a Texas publisher who was reportedly...
...spite of all this, Sir Bernard thinks the Bedouins who live in Aden are lucky. Last week he let them in on some centenary pageantry-a ball, concerts, a show of arms, a special issue of postage stamps. Sixteen sultans from the outlying protectorate paraded in splendor. One real gift, worth waiting a century for in disease-ridden Aden: $30,000 for a Maternity and Child Welfare Centre...
...Jacob Ruppert, aged 13, was owner, manager, captain and second baseman of a baseball club. Son of a well-to-do Manhattan brewer with a home on Fifth Avenue, he made his players clean the cages of his private menagerie before he would bring the bat and ball down to the vacant lot where they played. He fired any player who struck out. For young Jake could not bear to see his team lose...
...time he was 48, Colonel Ruppert was a very rich man. He had made millions in real estate, millions more in beer. But he was not happy. He wanted to own a ball club again. His offer for the New York Giants was refused. Someone suggested that he could buy the down-at-the-heels New York Yankees, weak sister of the American League, for $450,000. He did-in 1915, with a rich contractor, Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, as partner. For the next five years the two optimists shopped for a player who could produce home runs, finally...
...short-handed Jayvee basketball squad journeyed to Andover Wednesday afternoon and emerged on the short end of a 40 to 36 score with the Blue. Bill MsSweeney with 11' points and Bill McDonald with 10 tallies kept Coach Johnny Wiod's charges in the ball game until the final gun sounded...