Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time Paris newspapers were charging, without a scrap of evidence, that "evidently there has been sabotage by secret foreign agents." Much flustered, French Minister of Merchant Marine Léon Meyer called such an-explanation "too easy," suggested off his own bat that fires on modernistically decorated liners might be "due to the use of too exotic woods." He rushed off to Cherbourg "to institute an inquiry which I promise shall be searching and severe...
...Metropolitan Opera; Coe Glade of the Chicago Opera; Viennese Tenor Otto Fassell; Vera Schwarz of the Berlin State Opera. Harald Kreutzberg, Martha Graham, Patricia Bowman danced. Apelike Funnyman Dr. Rockwell and Weber & Fields excited laughter. There was deep-voiced DeWolf Hopper, always willing to do "Casey at the Bat." The Wallendas, whom John Ringling found in Cuba, performed on the high wire. The Six Bronetts clowned. From radio came the successful Sisters of the Skillet. From the screen came Taylor Holmes. There were acrobats and jugglers...
...simple, so simple; when they make a break, "All that you do is say, 'Why, that's not a mistake!' "Let them say 'It is me' to replace 'It is I'; "At 'Who are you looking for?' don't bat an eye; " 'Try and get well' let them write, and 'Walk slow'; "Surely let them get by with 'If that wasn't so-' "Let us write a nice list of mistakes they can use, "And publish a broadside 'gainst those who enthuse...
...score was 7-6 in the ninth inning, with none out. Woody Jenson of the Newark Bears stood with one foot on third base rubbing a knee he had skinned sliding in. At bat was Third Baseman Marvin Owen, whose home run four days earlier had started the International League Bears on their victorious way for the Little World Series against the Minneapolis Millers, American Association pennant winners. Another home run now by Baseman Owen, in the Millers' home park, would put the Bears ahead, give them the series, four games to two. Owen watched one ball...
...from the plate, one of the longest homeruns on record. Babe Ruth shambled slowly around the bases, shaking his fat shoulders and making remarks of mockery to each infielder as he passed. In the uproar, no one was paying much attention to what happened next. Lou Gehrig came to bat and hit the first pitch to the right field flag post. This was a homerun also...