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Word: balled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...players like Oscar Vitt, Alvin Crowder, Umpire Babe Pinelli. One day the playground coach, Edward Hennessey, found him peering through a knothole at the San Francisco Seals, introduced him to their president, Charlie Graham. The Seals tried young Di Maggio at shortstop but he showed a tendency to throw ball to the outfield instead of first base. That was in 1932. In 1933 Joe Di Maggie's older brother Vincent, Seals outfielder, hurt his shoulder, was released. Joe was sent to play right field. He got a hit his first time at bat, continued to hit safely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball: Midseason | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Harrison entering a broadcasting booth, chatting carelessly, being told she was on the air and exclaiming, "Oh, that's very mean of you! ..." Knox supporters looking gloomily about their camp in Hotel Cleveland's ballroom after Landon's nomination and saying "Well, this is the 8-ball room, all right. . . ." John Hamilton sitting on a hotel breakfast table, white napery included, to interview the press. . . . The orchestra in Hotel Hollenden's cocktail room playing Happy Days Are Here Again at the instigation of a newshawk and none of the roomful of Republicans recognizing the tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...made them costly even when bought at auction by an astute namesake of the British Admiralty's famed Samuel Pepys. In the great hall, between gleaming white Corinthian columns, long-dead British Admirals look down from heavily encrusted frames. After running this gantlet, guests arriving for an Admiralty ball admire the graceful, branching staircase, pass on to the drawing room, its walls hung with paintings of the voyages of Captain Cook. The amazing gilded furniture is the cele brated "Fish Set" presented in 1815 as a memorial to Lord Nelson by wealthy John Fish, who had the chair legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New British Strategy | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...goals to 10. Last week Hughes scored the first goal of what British experts later called the most exciting polo game ever played on British soil. Thereafter, the U. S.'s lanky back, Winston Guest, kept Hughes bottled up, while Stewart Iglehart and Michael Phipps fed the ball to Eric Pedley at No. 1. In the last chukker, with the score 7-to-6 for the U. S., Hurlingham's packed stands prayed for a tying goal. Instead, Pedley nursed the ball through England's goal posts. Two minutes later chukker, game and series ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Hurlingham | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...months later. Central figure of the novel is Luisa Sanfelice, 34-year-old daughter of impoverished nobles, unloved and unloving wife of a dissolute, treacherous aristocrat who has run through two fortunes, abandoned his children, left his wife in a state of dull, stupefied despair. At a ball given for Admiral Nelson on his return from the Battle of the Nile, Luisa meets Fernando Ferri, an ill-favored, impetuous, garrulous lawyer's clerk, secretly a radical who lacks the courage to state his views or the resourcefulness to try to achieve them. Luisa recognizes Fernando's weaknesses, loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sheean & Sin | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

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