Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis Cardinals; they won the pennant and he was traded to the New York Giants, where he was captain and assistant manager; last year he was traded to Boston where he squabbled with onetime manager Jack Slattery, a native of the city, and supplanted him as manager. Because Bostonian baseball fans were annoyed at this and because Rogers Hornsby demanded $50.000 yearly, Judge Fuchs sold him. Hornsby likes to bet on horse races; he is imperious and impudent and in Chicago he will be neither captain nor manager but merely second baseman. Next winter again there may be hornswoggling...
...chills and stratagems, will come away feeling that Pope's forever branding, "What pert low dialogue has Farquhar writ!" cannot possibly here apply, For Farquhar's diction, provincial and picaresque, his "unforced buoyant gaiety!" as Mr. William Archer has put it, has been so toned down for the unsullied Bostonian ear that Archer's daring, ".... you may have the same pleasure out of me, and still keep your fortune..." has become, "... you may still keep my friendship...
...Grand Prix Course, famed Racing Driver Antonio Materassi is roaring to victory at 120 miles per hour. Death! The car swerves and plunges into the grandstand. Materassi is killed. So are 21 spectators. Cables flash to the U. S. that among the 26 injured was one Mrs. Dorothy Doherty, Bostonian...
Philip Peabody, retired rich Bostonian, when he reached Manhattan on the Scandinavian-American Frederik VII, completed his 114th trans-Atlantic voyage. Two-hundred trips is his goal...
...from Maine: harrse, larf. Bostonian: hoss, lough. Texan: hawse, lawf...