Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot within ten feet of the pin from any distance up to 200 yards. He bet he could knock a ball three-quarters of a mile in five shots and won easily. He said he could beat Bing Crosby at golf using a shovel, a rake and a baseball bat...
...gives $5 to his son, $5 to his daughter, pays a bill and goes on a bat, winding up robbed by a street walker after knocking out a fellow drunk. His son wanders down Broadway; his daughter falls in love in Central Park. Author Calmer has broken up this Manhattan idyll with four long interludes that are made up of snapshots of city life: quarreling tenement dwellers, lovers lying on the roof in the heat, card players in a midtown hotel, a pair of middle-aged Lesbians quarreling, a sailor picking up a girl. Main trouble with When Night Descends...
From president to bat boy, the Dodgers have been famed as a team that always does the unexpected. Last week they paradoxically lived up to this reputation by doing the expected. As famed as their knack of getting caught between bases has been the Dodgers' knack of expressing themselves in puzzling ambiguities. Last week, Manager-elect Grimes maintained one tradition of the team while he saluted another. Said he: "I have to pinch myself to make believe it's not a dream...
...that Democratic platform that was adopted in Chicago in 1932, and if it had remained true to the principles of Jefferson . . . I know where I'd be, I'd be at the National Democratic Committee headquarters, where I've been for so many years, ready to bat for a success, but I can't see how anybody can expect me to battle for or even defend a failure...
...last week that awful moment at which his Tutor assigned him to "fag" for a senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus belabored like any other Eton schoolboy, but Viscount Lascelles is most unlikely to be flogged with the Eton birch by athletic, rock-climbing Headmaster...