Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pitchers. The pitchers have been having a hard time. Where once it was something of a disgrace for a pitcher to be batted out of the box, it is now a matter for comment when a pitcher lasts the full nine innings. "Best" pitcher of the year has been Robert Moses Grove of the Philadelphia Americans. A huge young man, Pitcher Grove propels the ball at such speed that few batters are able to time it correctly, and no matter how "lively" a ball may be it will travel no distance when the batter misses it. The Grove record...
...immunity. The Customs men communicated with the State Department, which verified their belief that diplomatic immunity is granted only to ambassadors or ministers and their wives, not to vice-consular ladies. Promptly the agents broke the seals, opened the trunks, lifted out laces, silks, and many a small tin box. The tin boxes contained a substance which the Customs men instantly recognized as opium?about $600,000 worth at current U. S. prices...
...Watson, Mrs. L. R. C. (Peggy Saunders) Mitchell, Miss Betty Nuthall. Youngsters passed over: Eileen Bennett, Joan Fry, Joan Ridley. Fight. Because he seemed to have no intention of carrying out an old contract with Arthur Bulow, his onetime manager, Heavyweight Max Schmeling was forbidden to box in New York State by the State Boxing Commission. The Bulow contract called for a fight with Phil Scott, third-rate Britisher. If Schmeling fights Scott he may thereafter fight in New York. If he does not, the Schmeling-Sharkey world's championship fight may be in Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Chicago. Track...
...bending them over the bar with a hammer. The weight is so great that those who wear the device attach a rope to both ends of the bar to keep it off the ground when shuffling inch by inch across the floor. If no rope is available a tobacco box or little block of wood may be placed under it in the center to do service as a caster...
...week to take notice of Composer Eugene Goossens' new opera, Judith. England sat up the most sharply because the premiere was at Covent Garden and because it was the first all-British opera in a long time. Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett wrote the libretto and beamed from a box, while Composer Goossens bowed from the stage, during the ovation. The cast, furthermore, was all-British except for the title part, sung and danced by Gota Ljungberg, able Scandinavienne...