Word: benching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moves again. So do feet, taxicabs, street cars, the arms of traffic officers. There is a suicide at the river, a bubble in the water. Workmen wash their hands and the factory gates roll shut. Rowboats on the river, tennis, golf, a kiss in the dusk on a park bench. . . . Headlights and signboards glitter. At the cinema the feet of Charles Chaplin are shown. Bare arms and bare legs at a revue move like machinery. A bit of Beethoven. A bar and an arm tightening about a waist. A swirl of skyrockets. A sudden...
...very small man with his hat pulled over his eyes sat on a wooden bench smoking a cigaret. Near him three or four gentlemen wearing badges were arguing in low voices; one was thumbing the pages of a rule book. Around the bench and the arguing gentlemen several thousand people shuffled and murmured. Suddenly one of the badge-wearers stepped forward and said to the little man: "All right, Mr. Jurado, you can drop it out two club's lengths." The little man smiled, got up, and placed at a spot indicated to him by the officials a golf...
Died. Judge Walter Henry Sanborn, 82, oldest member and presiding judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for its Eighth Circuit; suddenly; of grip; in St. Paul, Minn. In his 36 years on the Federal bench Judge Sanborn wrote over 1,200 opinions, many of first importance...
...striking out on each side. The second inning, marked only by occasional shifts in the line-up, passed with equal rapidity as the teams went around the batting order. In this inning either two or three runs were scored for the CRIMSON and forced the Princetonian hurlet behind the bench. The third and fourth frames were filled with the crack of bats as the Crimson willows, second only to the war clubs of the battling Princetonians, struggled hard to stop the batting order from going around. By the fifth inning the umpires had retired into conference to consider cancelling...
...Coach Barry's pitching selection should fall on Dobens, the Harvard line-up may be shifted to present more right-handed hitters to the southpaw slants of the Crusader. With R. C. Sullivan '28 still on the bench with a bad arm, G. E. Donaghy '29 will play shortstop, with A. G. Whitney '29 at third. F. E. Nugent '30 may play right field in place of W. B. Jones '28 if Dobens pitches...