Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most sensitive bump on Italy's shin bone last week was tiny, historic Ravello. There, in the snug, age-whitened Villa Cimbrone, overlooking the blue Mediterranean from its mountain perch, two people were trying not to notice that all the world was watching them. The man: snowy-haired, limelight-loving, 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski, whose American wife divorced him last December. The woman: Hollywood's No. 1 recluse, Greta Garbo...
Strong-arm men employed by Mr. O'Hara are in the State; they have trailed officials, and threatened to bump-off the Governor and other officials. Mr. O'Hara has resorted to threats, intimidation and violence The opening of the track for the October races will result in bodily barm and injury to Rhode Island citizens and in lawlessness and disturbances with which civil authorities are unable to cope...
...fourth game started out as expected when the Yankees got a run off the Giants' No. 1 pitcher, lanky, left-handed Carl Hubbell, in the first inning, and the Yankees' least-prepossessing pitcher, Irving ("Bump") Hadley, held the Giants scoreless. First indication of a Giant revival came when Hank Leiber knocked out a clean single in the second inning. Encouraged, Johnny McCarthy and Harry Banning singled in quick succession, which scored one run. Then Burgess Whitehead slapped a grounder that unluckily struck Danning as he was running from first to second, thus putting him out for being...
...Favorite indoor sport" was the Suicide Club, which met to discuss how to live up to its slogan: "A bump a month." When a member succeeded in outwitting the enemy attendants, his memory was roundly cheered, his name entered on the roll of honor...
...Cochrane was Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, catcher and manager of the Detroit Tigers. His condition, concussion of the brain and a triple skull fracture, was the result of being hit on the head by a baseball thrown by Pitcher Irving ("Bump") Hadley of the New York Yankees. Pitcher Hadley had hit Catcher Cochrane accidentally. Nonetheless, the mishap, which baseball experts predicted would end both Catcher Cochrane's playing career and the chances of the Tigers to win the American League pennant this season, revived an uproar about "bean balls" which has been a feature of the 1937 major-league...