Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Kalgan he made his way to Tatung, visited the bat-haunted Imperial Cave Temples of the Wei Dynasty, thence to Saratsi in Suiyuan District to inspect China's greatest irrigation project, a dam being built under the supervision of O. J. Todd, U. S. engineer, to harness the mighty yellow River, "China's Sorrow," and attempt to control its perennial floods...
...Francis ("Shanty") Hogan, huge, able catcher of the New York Giants baseball team, at an apartment party in Manhattan, objected to the presence of one Joseph Kink, Negro elevator operator who had been asked in for a drink. Hogan ejected Kink. Furious, Kink got a base ball bat and knife, waited until Hogan left the party, took him down in the elevator, beat and stabbed him painfully as he left the building...
Second Game. The Cardinals again made two bad mistakes. The day before they had systematically annoyed the Athletics' Mickey Cochrane, "greatest catcher in baseball." When he came to bat the St. Louis henchmen had flapped their hands beside their heads, chanting softly "Mule ears. Mule ears." Annoyed, Cochrane had knocked a homer. Now in the first inning they goaded him again. He made another homer...
...Batting. The reason that Mack did not rely so much on his left-handers against the Cubs last year was that he thought it a bad idea to use "lefties" against a team of good right-hand hitters. The Cardinals hit just as well right-handed as the Cubs. Douthit, Hafey, Wilson, Gelbert, Adams are all right-side batters; Frisch can bat on either side. This year (up to last week) the Cardinal outfield averaged .353 at bat, the Athletics outfield .311. Every man in the regular Cardinal line-up except Bottomley has hit over .300. The six best Athletics...
...Francisco Symphony, knew his suave, mocking Valse, his lovely Mother-Goose Suite, his high-powered Bolero. Prepared to be charmed, they watched the unfolding of his latest fantasy about a boy who shirked his studies, teased his pets. Clock, chairs, teapot came to life. Cat, squirrel, frog and bat took on human ways. It was all delightfully fragile and the more music-wise waxed enthusiastic over the smart orchestration which suggested perfectly so detailed a bit as the Boy stupidly mulling over his mathematics. Soprano Queena Mario, all agreed, made an irresistibly piquant Boy. But the children liked her better...