Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen years ago Casey Stengel, then manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a quick look at a skinny little kid who claimed to be a shortstop. Casey gave the youngster a blunt piece of advice: "Go peddle your papers, Shorty, you're too small ever to become a major-leaguer...
...Marty Marion, nor the rifle arm of the Red Sox's Vern Stephens. But Rizzuto learned to scoot around his short-field like a hopped-up water bug, to make throws from any position short of standing on his head. Within five years after Stengel's blunt advice, the "Scooter" had nailed down the shortstop job with the New York Yankees...
...Abbott to Barrie) and from a sameness of subject matter. The "guests" at the Cloisters can only trot out their obsessions; the old lady can only defy and deceive her stepchildren. And the staging, which might have given the play a nice airy unreality, makes most of it noisily blunt...
...fanned. Since his twelve years in the Senate were a matter of public record, they were wide open to the scrutiny of his enemies. The C.I.O. kept a staff of men busy combing the Congressional Record for ammunition. Taft's lofty scorn for half-baked ideas, his blunt honesty, his long rear-guard battle against the charging revolution of the New Deal, his stubbornness, his querulous isolationism (which had a way of popping up again just when everybody thought he had overcome it), all could be turned around and used against...
Sherman H. Hawkins '51, director of the production, yesterday announced the following cast: King Henry, Warren Brody '52; Prince Hal, Sherman H. Hawkins '51; Blunt, Peter S. Capersares '52; Worcester, Joseph S. Ullian...