Word: caine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strangest figure ever to wear a major-league uniform: brandishing a toy bat, a midget (3 ft. 7 in.) named Ed Gaedel stepped up to the plate. Before the Tigers could protest, Manager Taylor produced a bona fide contract, and the baffled umpire said, "Play ball." Tiger Pitcher Bob Cain, obviously afraid of hitting the batter with a fast pitch, admitted defeat by giving Gaedel an intentional walk* (Final score: Tigers 6; Browns 2.) League President Will Harridge was not so delighted. He promptly told Veeck that midgets did not serve "the best interests of baseball," ordered Gaedel...
...wife to an extensive tour of the Holy Land, and the pastor came back loaded with color slides and notes, from which he has been making carefully constructed, well illustrated lecture-sermons. Topics, announced as much as four months in advance, include such eye-catchers as "Where Did Cain Get His Wife?"* and "The Lost. City of Edom and Obadiah's Strange Message...
...McBirnie's answer: Cain must have married his sister. The only woman in the world at that time not his sister or his niece would have been his mother...
...during the hearings, this week released a 52-page report giving their conclusions. The signers were New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, New Jersey's Alexander Smith, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper, California's William Knowland, Washington's Harry P. Cain, Maine's Owen Brewster and Vermont's Ralph Flanders. Their findings...
...Letters to the Editor," the constant smearing of Republicans, such as Taft, Martin, Bricker, Wherry, Cain, Hickenlooper, by so-called "modern" Republicans is sickening! They decry the mess into which the socialistic-minded "New" and "Fair" Dealers have gotten our country, but resent the very men who aggressively fight "Socialism" and "Collectivism" . . . How can we ever change the mess without changing the ideas that created the mess...