Word: balled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...auctioneer's desk. The night before he had paid a surprise visit to the stable, stopped at each stall for a last look and pat. He lingered longest at the stall of Miss Muffet, his favorite hunter. Afterward he had stopped in at the local British Legion ball and danced with the wife of his stud groom...
Among the less significant although highly interesting questions was one which has been answered by documents included in the two thousand or more recently discovered by Professor Hart and Mr. Henry Woodhouse, a collector in Washington, D. C. It appears that Mrs. Mary Ball Washington, mother of the president, applied to the legislature a short while after the Revolution, and claimed that she was in need of a pension and certainly merited it, as the mother of the patriot. Her son, then president, was greatly embarrassed we have a letter which he wrote to his sister, vehemently protesting that their...
Most significant is the "dead fumble" ruling which provides that hereafter a fumbled ball is dead at the point of recovery, if recovered by the defensive team, and remains in possession of that team. Heretofore, fumbled punts and fumbled lateral passes have been dead, but fumbles in scrimmage have not, and complications have resulted. The new rule also applies to fumbles of all types of kicked balls and not merely to fumbled punts...
...preoccupied to be interested in the suave social attentions of Miami's wealthy winter visitors. Had he not been the President-Elect, he would have been set down as snobbish. The Committee of One Hundred asked him to attend a splendid ball, to sit in a Presidential box, at the Nautilus Hotel in Miami Beach. A curtly polite "No thanks" came from the Penney estate. On the date set he planned to be inspecting the dreary Okeechobee district where 2,000 persons lost their lives in last year's flood and hurricane...
...balls and bats constitute no major portion of the Spalding company's present production. In 1892, A. G. Spalding & Bros, acquired Wright & Ditson and A. J. Reach, sporting goods companies, and put itself in an almost monopolistic position to profit from that trend in U. S. life which was to add the football stadium to collegiate architecture and golf .to the businessman's routine. Had the famed football player who wished to die for dear old Rutgers realized his ambition, a Spalding ball would have been found under his corpse. The first Davis Cup tennis matches (1900) were...