Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before dawn one morning after that, Mrs. George Kronshein, night supervisor at Brooklyn's Harbor Hospital, telephoned the police. She said that a drunken copper had barged into the nurses' home, mauled her, and then staggered noisily into a women's ward. A patrol car arrived and took the cop away...
...Manhattan, Best-Seller Betty Smith, little noted since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, worked on a play and a movie, had a new book about Brooklyn coming out next spring, meantime mused to an interviewer: "I'm getting too used to luxury. Writers shouldn't have too much comfort-all they need is warmth and enough to eat. . . . What I long for is the feeling of dreaming of a bright future again...
...began lacklusterly, got worse before getting better, and ended in a nerve-twisting climax that practically stopped the normal pursuits of commerce in every U.S. city & town for three hours every afternoon. There were moments when it seemed as if the entire citizenry of the Borough of Brooklyn might be carried off in one collective heart attack. For in losing, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the beloved Bums, had run the gamut from derring-do to derring...
...pitching, and for edgy, spectacular play. It was the longest nine-inning game (3 hrs. 19 min.) in Series history; the Yankees used more players (21) and both sides more pitchers (ten) than ever before. This time it was the proud Yankees, hustled to distraction by Brooklyn's irreverent Bums, who looked sloppy. The Dodgers won, and evened the Series...
...seventh day, a game didn't seem official without Casey trudging unhurriedly in from the bull pen. Big Hugh Casey, who weighs 219 lbs. and runs the Dodgers' favorite beer parlor in Brooklyn, is a man of immense calm. There were often men on bases when he came in; but Casey had a tavernkeeper's instinct for quelling disturbances. He pitched in six of the seven games (another record), won two of them, saved another...