Word: burleighs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fette, who proceeded to win 18 and 17 games respectively this season, simply providing a fresh demonstration of the axiom that 30 is the best age for a pitcher. Competing with Charley Dressen's Reds for the tail end position were Jim Wilson's Philadelphia Phillies, with Burleigh Grimes's Brooklyn Dodgers just escaping the ignominy of the cellar...
...Ethiopia, Storm Over the Andes, Storm Over Asia, Thunder Over Mexico and Head Over Heels in Love (TIME, Feb. 22), is Elizabethan sword & cloak drama, showing how the Spanish Armada was frustrated by young Michael Ingolby (Laurence Olivier) while Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) was feeding porridge to doddering Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten). In a hand-to-hand combat between Michael Ingolby and Michael Strogoff, the correct odds would be even money. In addition to burning the Armada with the aid of seven men in rowboats, Ingolby escapes from a Spanish galleon, sails in a fishing smack from Spain to England...
When the directors of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team last month ousted their able manager Casey Stengel, amazed baseball reporters promptly began guessing the name of his successor. Consensus was that it would be pugnacious Burleigh Grimes, who pitched for Brooklyn from...
...milksop forced by fate to be a prizefighter. However, unlike Chaplin's Modern Times (TIME, Feb. 17) which would have been nonexistent without Chaplin, The Milky Way might have been a shade funnier if Producer Lloyd had cast someone other than himself in the leading role. Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), a craven milkwagon driver who, in order to preserve his feeble physique, has perfected the art of ducking punches, tries to rescue his sister (Helen Mack) from two drunks. When he ducks a punch from one of the drunks, it knocks out the other, who turns out to be Middleweight...
Score--Harvard 12, Boston Lacrosse Club 2. Goals--Edmands 5, England 4, Bosworth 3, Maddux, F. Martin, Woodward. Substitutions--Harvard: Howe, Clos, Purdy, Maddux, Wood, Hartshorne, Carter; Boston Lacrosse Club: Henderson, Hyerson, Ghriskey, Crawley, Morrissey, Rohn Martineau, B. Martin, Burleigh. Referee--Ward. Time--Four 15-minute periods...