Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called it off. One winter there was a popular song called "Bebe, Be Mine" and even now when she goes to a cabaret the orchestra leader usually recognizes her and starts to play it-a gay, only lightly sentimental song. Bebe Daniels likes all games but likes swimming better and riding still better and best of all to drive a fast car fast. She is seldom arrested...
...With one out, the bases filled, and the infield playing close so as to be able to field a grounder home, Cub Short-stop English boneheaded to second. Pitcher Earnshaw of Philadelphia tired but his successor, muscular Robert Moses Grove, proved that a good left-handed pitcher can do better than tradition says against a team of right-handed hitters. Athletics 9, Cubs...
...when Philadelphia's "Mule" Haas came up to bat in the ninth inning and knocked a straight pitch over the right field fence, bringing in Bishop and tying the score. By slaps and gesticulations, since words could not be heard, Cubs tried to make Malone feel better, but his nerve was gone. He took a long breath, got rid of Mickey Cochrane on a grounder; burly Simmons doubled. Joe McCarthy signalled to pass Foxx. While the crowd, inimical to strategy, was hooting this. Miller's two bagger brought the run that won the championship and $6,000 prize...
Slightly outplayed by a Princeton team that was guilty of stupid penalties and unable to kick goals after touchdowns, Brown got better as it grew wearier and edged out the game...
...Last week the New Yorker, Manhattan weekly smartchart, told how a gentleman aboard the Mauretania en route for Manhattan last June, spent the better part of four afternoons on a sequestered deck-bench reading Authoress Delmar's Loose Ladies. The reader was John Pierpont Morgan...