Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Golfer Gene Sarazen. A scrimmaging, scuffling, head-on player, with no finesse but prodigious determination, Hughes kept bunting shots past Winston Guest, who played at back as though he thought his opposing No. 1 were not worth bothering with. When, in the fourth chukker, chunky little Hughes poked the ball between the posts three times, England was only a goal behind. When Guinness scored again for England in the sixth, the score was tied at 7-all, and what had started as a rout was momentarily the tightest U. S. v. England polo since...
...Family, The Lieut. Governour & Family. The Admirall & Family & all the Remainder, Gentlemen & Ladies of Character & Reputation. The whole was conducted with much Ease & Pleasure & all Joyned in making each other Happy--such an Entertainment has not been made in New England before on any Occasion. I ( - - - ) went to the Ball at the Town House, where most of the Company went to Dance--they were all very happy & Cheerful & the whole was conducted to the General Satisfaction of all present...
...Higher in Hawaii, Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Soon the metropolis was cavorting to the Dixieland's own tunes, which have since become jazz classics: Tiger Rag by La Rocca, Clarinet Marmalade by Shields and Ragas, Sensation Rag by Edwards, At the Jazz Band Ball by La Rocca and Shields...
...cover of his brother's first songbook Artist Gellert drew a barrel-chested, barefooted black convict wearing a ball& chain and resting on his pickax while he wiped the sweat from his face. Of the songs, some are mournful, some grim, some comic. But each one has its grievance. In I Went to Atlanta...
...clucking over the days when Mr. Kent, Clarence Henry Geist (United Gas Improvement) and the late John T. Dorrance (Campbell Soup) had a baseball team of marriageable daughters between them. In the competitive spending which the launching of these nine young women entailed, the Dorrance triumph was a "Jungle Ball" in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford hotel, where the ballroom was realistically decorated with coconut palms, tanks of tropical fish, a menagerie of monkeys, apes, bears, snakes and hundreds of birds singing in cages hung from the ceiling. Utilitarian Geist's big play was a party on his suburban...