Word: broomsticks
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...fiery great-grandmother. Nadya Séverin, a Russian princess waited on by an idiot boy but occasionally escaping downstairs under the delusion that she is flogging some serfs-a character so bewilderingly obscure that it would not be surprising if she should mount a moon-bound broomstick...
...that the fleet was shorthanded, Mme Toussaint cast decorum to the winds, bundled her brood into the boat, the Six Little Brothers, set off to lend her efficient aid. It was late that night before the weary fishermen returned, to watch Mme Toussaint and Jean jump over the broomstick together. And as the overworked engine of the Six Little Brothers had broken down, the bride and groom never...
Indoor baseball, according to legend, was invented by George Hancock who, one rainy afternoon at the old Farragut Boat Club in Chicago, started a game, using a broomstick for a bat, a boxing glove for a ball. That was in 1888. In the next 40 years, the game crept tentatively out of doors, developed a loose set of rules and modestly acquired a new name: "softball." Suddenly, in 1930, it became a U. S. mania...
...Manager Cochrane could have supported his second contention with his first baseman, Henry Benjamin Greenberg, who is probably the outstanding player on the Tigers this year, certainly the leading homerun hitter in both leagues and the ablest Jew in baseball. A New Yorker who learned to bat with a broomstick in side-street one-o'-cat games, he was offered a job with the Yankees in 1930, shrewdly refused it because he foresaw small chance of replacing First Baseman Lou Gehrig. He quit New York University at the end of his first semester to join the Tigers at their...
...Convict In Congress") Shoemaker. While the dignified, gentle Farmer-Laborite Senator remained in Washington until Congress adjourned, made no campaign, his obstreperous opponent filled the Minnesota air with sound and fury. On the stump Candidate Shoemaker poured vitriol on everyone within reach. He was arrested in shirtsleeves, swinging a broomstick, during Minneapolis' truck strike riots. When the vote was counted last week quiet Radical Shipstead had beaten loud Radical Shoemaker no less than 3 to 1. The blatancy of Mr. Shoemaker had been too much for even Minnesota's Farmer-Laborites. Moreover, he had found in the editor...