Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buffalo baseball nine, champions of the International League. The rabbi knew that the Buffalos were playing that day with the American Association's champion Toledo team for the minor league championship of the world; that Toledo had four wins to Buffalo's one; that Andrew Cohen's mates would suffer mentally and possibly financially if he could not play. Was there no dispensation in Judaism...
Rabbi Kornfeld, President Harding's friend and onetime (1921) Minister to Persia, proved himself a sympathetic latitudinarian on Yom Kippur, most solemn of Jewish days. Continuing his own fast, he fixed Shortstop Cohen a nourishing snack and sent him forth to play shortstop for Buffalo...
Shortstop Cohen played well. He came to bat four times; he made two "safe hits"; he "put out" three opponents; and six times he helped his mates in plays. He made no errors. But Buffalo scored no runs. Toledo made four, and won the game & the series. Andrew Cohen's share of the series' receipts was $750. Toledo players, victorious, received $1,000 each. ¶Past Brooklyn synagogs on Yom Kippur Day screeched fire trucks; from Brooklyn synagogs ran children and fasting members of congregations. The owner of the Boston Laundry had neglected to turn off his gas iron...
...second to answer that question. Paris, we find, has its lures, but the call to "go somewhere," has also and the lures of the latter are apparently greater for we find ourselves wandering with the author through wild desert and dried-up-river beds that teem with game, especially buffalo. Pictures of the upper Nile, of strange places such as Makwar, of the valley of the Dinder, of Rosaries flit before us with amazing rapidity. We are able to feel the heat of the sun and enthuse over the coloring of the sunsets with the author, despite the fact that...
Sued for Divorce. By the onetime Varvara I. Pupin, daughter of Michael Idvorsky Pupin, famed scientist (Columbia University); one Louis Graham Smith of Buffalo...