Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the conversational medicine ball had been thrown back and forth enough this Sunday morning, we decided to put the question of the price for eating an earthworm to the test. Upshot: a friend of mine (incidentally a Harvard student-perhaps that explains it) totally consumed a fairly good-sized angleworm for the small fee of 25?. We concluded that Dr. Thorndike's price of $100 was a little high. Would he be interested...
...clapped on his silk hat like a sombrero and dined formally with the President at the White House. Once a year he returned the President's invitation at his hotel. Outside the Senate he was seen three or four afternoons a week in his reserved box at the ball park or occasionally riding through the streets in the Vice President's 16-cylinder Cadillac bearing the number 111. But if for a time Congressmen thought as the public did, they have since changed their mind, for Throttlebottom has a hand on the throttle...
...song called "Life Could Be So Beautiful" ("There's more than enough for all") which is bewilderingly illustrated by some female dancers in ball gowns, some male dancers in curious green corduroy suits...
...appalling moment last week, William Lawson Little Jr. stood on the golf course at St. Anne's-on-the-Sea and watched his opponent in the final of the British Amateur Championship putt on the last green. If the ball went into the cup, it meant that their match was all even. If it stayed out, it meant that Little had done what only one golfer, Harold Hilton in 1900 and 1901, had done in this century: won the British Amateur two years in a row. In those protracted seconds while the ball was rolling smoothly toward...
...Crimson nine played very steady defensive ball, and made only one error during the game, as contrasted with four and five made during some League contests...