Word: bowler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general purposes, Mr. William McGeorge of Kent, Ohio would serve as Mr. Average U. S. Bowler. He is 53, looks 40; has a Celtic thrust to his under jaw; is lean, lanky, straight; believes bowling is the best possible exercise. A white-collar man with an electrical firm, he has a wife and three big sons, lives in a simple house on College Street. He bowls Wednesday and Friday nights with the Portage County All Stars and in the Kent-Ravenna City League. When he bowls in important competition he wears a shiny satin bowling shirt with a regimental-striped...
Last week Bowler McGeorge and some of the boys decided to have a try at the slick alleys and new wood at the American Bowling Congress up in Cleveland. It was Bowler McGeorge's first A.B.C. appearance. When the crowd from Kent arrived, the A.B.C. was rumbling through its third week, and up to then nothing spectacular had happened. Nothing McGeorge and the Kent men did in the five-man play served to jog the tourney out of its doldrums. Mac, for example, rolled 175-153-214 for a 542 total. Next day in the doubles, with a fellow...
Arrested on suspicion of grand larceny, Eric Pinker appeared in a police lineup, jaunty in sack suit and bowler, to plead not guilty, to be confronted by "indications" that Romancer Oppenheim was not his only dissatisfied client. Finding that he had a good British passport in his pocket, a magistrate sent Mr. Pinker, handcuffed to a Negro prisoner, to be held in the Tombs without bail for trial. When a grand jury handed up an indictment and Mr. Dewey's office revealed that a series of complaints had swelled Agent Tinker's alleged pilferings to $100,000, other...
...Nobel Prize 20 years after he retired from the Cavendish directorship. Third director was Sir Joseph John Thomson, who held the post for 35 years, discovered the electron while studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters in an old laboratory, is said by irreverent students never to take a bath. He got his Nobel Prize...
...three games), in the doubles he posted 614. In the singles, he started out even worse with discouraging scores of 171 and 145 for his first two games. But suddenly in his third game, Mike Blazek began to hear again & again the hallowed sound that is music to a bowler's ears-the clean, choral crash that means a strike. Eight, nine, ten times in succession. Aware that something momentous was happening, excited crowds began to jam behind his alley, but Bowler Blazek refused to be ruffled. Again he rolled a solid pocket smash. Taking his stance...