Word: batted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winners of the Wendell Bat and the Wingate Cup will be announced on the evening of February 16, and these prizes will be awarded at the dinner...
Anti-Salooners. "The strategy we should employ today is to arouse our people and get them into the fight. Get the church people at the bat. Let them have their innings. . . . The Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. have never been and never will be supergovernment.* But we have said to the people that the time has come to take our government out of the hands of the bootleggers and put it back where it belongs." So said Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League last month. Last week there were rumblings among Anti-Salooners...
Dracula. A quarter century ago, a book (Bram Stoker's Dracula) dealt with a gruesome being, dead five centuries, who haunted maidens' boudoirs in the shape of a bat, to drink their blood. So horrible were its beastly visions that many a maid fell helpless with hysterics; mothers banned the book, after reading it secretly themselves, and fainting. This book is now a play, packed grimly with cursing madmen, open graves, the scream of dogs, the shadow of Beath...
...emotion, perception, tenderness, ruthlessness). Genius Balieff possessed one woman's quality, and it finally drove him to desert the Moscow Art. He craved to talk. To satisfy this craving he formed his own theatre; in its early days a sort of music hall cafe, and called it The Bat. "When I make the theatre in a cellar, as I go in one day. . . one bat was flying...
Moscow approved The Bat. The Tsar saw the show; invited M. Balieff to dinner. Came 1917 and revolution. In 1919 Nikita Balieff was jailed because he "was not consented with their views on poltique." He pointed his fingernails and skulking behind a long square beard escaped to Georgia (southern Russia) as a Persian...