Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerned by the fact that he had won six games in a row this season (in which he allowed only three runs), and was leading the league in strikeouts with 65. What riled Brooklynites was the fact that Johnny Vander Meer had once been in the Dodgers training camp but they had let him go to Scranton. It was Larry MacPhail who had the foresight to buy him from Nashville in the summer of 1936 (for $17,500 cash and one player) after the wild young lefthander had been turned down by the Yankees, Red Sox and Giants...
...Berkshires were that all of the visitors at Kamp Kare-Free were unmistakably denizens of The Bronx and that the author had caught, with sympathy but cruel precision, all the semi-miraculous gradations of Bronx Jewish dialect. As presented on the screen, nothing but the name of the camp, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s aquiline profile, and a few traits recognizable only to the student of the New York melting pot, identify the characters of Having Wonderful Time. In response to the wishes of the Hays office, which also effected a few improving variations on the morals of the personages...
...letter in TIME, June 13, subject Browder, signed by one Burton H. Pugh; I respectfully suggest Mr. Pugh as candidate for nomination as warden of Jersey City concentration camp...
...Poet Cummings first made his literary presence felt with a novel, The Enormous Room (1922), written after he had served in an ambulance unit and as a private in the World War. Readers of the book, which gave some remarkably detailed dirt on life in an internment camp, were aware that something new was loose in the literary world. What it was became only gradually clearer when Cummings published Tulips and Chimneys (1923) and six subsequent volumes of poems. With their peculiar typography, syntax, and use of words, these books struck most first-time readers as wilful puzzlers, made many...
...nine to eleven members to include three Guaranty lieutenants, John Hollister, John Dickinson and Earle Bailie, the latter to rill a vacancy. Technically, this was a compromise; but Robert Young considered it a victory, for he still had about half the stockholders and most of the directors in his camp.*Last week in Cleveland the new board re-elected Mr. Young's C. & O. management, including President George Doswell Brooke. Directors also voted to pay a 25?dividend on July 1, said they planned to pay another 25? next October. If they do, C. & O.'s common stockholders...