Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer about to make his first argument before the U.S. Supreme Court is apt to feel almost as unfamiliar with the niceties of procedure as if he had been called upon to slay a bull before the onyx-eyed gods of ancient India. Last week, in a speech to members of the California State Bar in San Francisco, Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson offered a few helpful hints on advocacy in the high temple...
Veeck's first stunt to sell tickets for the Browns' games was. 'Drink on the House" day; fans turned out to guzzle 6,041 soft drinks and 7.596 bottles of beer. The next Veeck inspiration was a team band: Pitchers Al Widmar on bull fiddle and Satchel Paige on drums, Coach Ed Redys on accordion, in a concert at home plate...
...stretch, could keep writing even while listening to unrelated problems. "Get all of the news," he demanded. Much of it he got himself. He covered Napoleon Ill's war against Austria, and after the Civil War broke out, he turned up to cover the first Battle of Bull Run. Wrote Raymond of the Union retreat there: "The crowd in the rear became absolutely frenzied with fear, and an immense mass of wagons, horses, men on foot, and flying soldiers came dashing down the hill." But a censor held up his account so long that the Herald beat...
...heart was broken; the sob-racked notes of Vesti la Giubba soared out of the phonograph, quivered through the cluttered den of Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza's Beverly Hills home. An exuberant young man with the face of a choir boy and the frame of a prize bull let the vibrations pour over him until he could stand it no longer. His bright black eyes glistened. "Oo, Mario," he cooed lovingly, "you can sing like a sonofabitch ! " Both the voice on the record and the ecstatic compliment came from Mario Lanza himself, at 30 the first operatic tenor...
Mackenzie built Matador's stock to what proud Matador hands called "the world's finest" herd of Herefords. He once said: "If we can obtain a bull that will add 10? a head to the price of Matadors over a period of years, there is no price too great for us to pay." For Murdo, work was an obsession. "I can't see why men would play golf when they can work," he said...