Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...product of a virgin mind. The man who toys each day with pet lions must receive the credit. Surely it is time for him to outrival the poetry of D'Annunxio with a treatise on eugenics. The glory that was Garibaldt learned a thing or two in Brooklyn. Let Italy now return her national debt in kind. Let the Duce take the flower of our American girlhood: Mr. Ziegfield has had his turn...
...young lady of thirteen who raised Brooklyn from the realm of antiquated humor to the Utopia of poesy now has a rival. Another young lady of thirteen, this time from Lynn has proclaimed her muse. Singing not of tenements and traffic but of field mice and clocks of loons, the shoe city Sappho strikes a pastoral note truly becoming in one of her age. One stanza from her "Autumn" shows how nature has fired her girlish genius. "Flocks of loons and coots and mallows Flying southward by the score...
...Seitz, retired journalist (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The New York World), is a gentleman of terse humor that is itself uncommon...
...inning, Moore, young Pittsburgh second baseman, drew a base on balls. Carey singled. Cuyler singled. "Sarah" Barnhart singled. Two runs had scored, and Washington advocates were crying: "Cheese!" and "Bummer!" at Coveleskie. The Polish pitcher (who won three World Series games in 1920 when he pitched for Cleveland against Brooklyn) trod slowly with downcast head toward a, shower bath; one Ballou, of scant fame, took his place, and Pittsburgh scored twice more. "Back, then, to Pittsburgh!" cried the fanatics...
Simultaneously, a $250,000 building drive was launched to provide funds to enlarge the Brooklyn Jewish Home for Convalescents...