Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elevator operators in Los Angeles' City Hall were told to stop calling out. "War Department!" for the floor on which Divorces are granted, "Flatfoot Alley!" for police headquarters, and "Ball & Chain!" for the city attorney's criminal division...
File & Forget. In Worcester, Mass., brave Helen Pedone and Julie Carelli optimistically complained to police that their wallets had been stolen at the annual policemen's ball...
...Mister Crump was ready for anything. For the governorship, he would run incumbent Jim McCord, no ball of fire but a man of considerable personal popularity. For the senatorship, he wanted a man with a war record to match Gordon Browning's. Thus eliminated from consideration as a Crump candidate, Tom Stewart bravely announced last week that he would run for re-election anyway. Snapped Ed Crump: "Stewart will be going around in circles, not knowing the directions, north, east, south, or west...
Each time Andy got ahead there were cries, "You're lucky, Andy." The crowd wasn't really against Andy: it was just that he was fun to badger. Twice, trying to knock down a lone pin, he committed the amazing error of guttering the ball, like any Thursday-night office league dub. The crowd jeered. Not until Wilman's last ball was bowled was the championship decided. Joe needed a strike to win, and left the tenpin standing...
Meanwhile, the Committee for Wallace will oppose the Marshall Plan against the Radcliffe League for Democracy in a debate at 3 o'clock tonight in Cabot Ball Saunter H. Rear, assistant professor of Government, will moderate...