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...those arrested are that lucky. Just before Christmas, a newspaperman having a couple of quick ones in a bar told a fellow patron: "I hear the President has been on a bat for nearly a week." He finished his drink and sauntered out the door into the arms of a waiting plainclothesman. At the station, without even bothering to question him, the police sent him straight to Las Heras penitentiary where he was issued the grey pants, jacket and cap of an Argentine convict and thrown into a cell. Seventeen days later, he was suddenly freed...
...president, lines up in a row at home plate while the other publication, with its president in the pitcher's box, takes the field. The pitcher tosses an empty beer can to his rival executive who swats it with a hunk of wood. At this signal the team at bat races in a wild circuit of the base path while the members of the "fielding" team attempt to tackle and/or trip them. As soon as 23 men have crossed home plate the inning is over and the other publication is "at bat." After all this both squads retire to claim...
Once, when an angry acquaintance broke a maulstick over his head, Rolfe did not even bat...
...asked the big (1,150 Ibs.) grey colt for action. As usual, the Dancer responded with a surge of power, and by midstretch he had put away the leaders. Although the colt likes to loaf once he gets in front, a» warning wave of Jockey Guerin's bat sent him winging under the wire in an excellent 1:44⅓The victory, worth $38,525, boosted Native Dancer's earnings to $230,495, and made him the money-winningest two-year-old of all time (the previous record: $219,000, won back in 1931 by the unbeaten...
...which he was privileged to take part. Pa was a formidable and handsome man-tall, erect, curly-haired and with a straight right capable of breaking a man's jaw. Ma was handsome and formidable too-once she hit a slum bully over the head with a ball bat and knocked him colder than a brass casting. But there the similarity ceased...