Word: bum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...design a radio coil. I make it with sweat and blood and it's the ne plus ultra coil. Then I give it to a producer and tell him to make it just so. Then that bum makes it wrong. So I get into the coil business...
...like to share a transcontinental plane seat with Greta Garbo: "She sits next to me and I notice that she's so nervous that her hand is shaking on the arm of the seat... It was her first trip ... I guess she'd never had any bum talk to her before like I did. She got calm . . . That Greta's wonderful. When you see her up close, she's really got a beautiful kisser. Real sharp chiseled features...
...three pitches, went on to save the St. Louis lead and win the World Championship. Later, Pete reminisced about his second pitch to Lazzeri, which Lazzeri had hit whistling down the third-base line-barely foul. Said he: "A foot made the difference between being a hero and a bum...
...ALEXANDER SENT TO BELLEVUE; NECK BROKEN, ALEXANDER WALKS OUT OF HOSPITAL. Last week, at 63, Old Pete's troubles came to an end. Back in St. Paul, Neb., his old home town, he died peacefully in his sleep. Baseball fans, remembering the one-foot difference between hero and bum, remembered the record of one of baseball's greatest pitchers: 373 games won,* 90 by shutout, winning percentage...
...been picking the ponies at most of the better ovals in this locate for the last couple, two three years, but there comes a time where a guy turns around and he says to himself "look." "You bum Spanielle, you've been misdirecting the good people of Malden for long enough already; what you need is now vistas." So when I am offered by the CRIMSON, the eunuque opportunity of selecting the winner of the Harvard Dartmouth embroglio, I says, "What's in it for me." He says "a double sawbuck and a fin" and I says Harvard 21 Dartmouth...