Word: casey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck...
...Casey?" wasp-waisted little wives whispered into their husbands' sideburns as young De Wolf Hopper recited the last stanza of a poem called Casey at the Bat in Wallack's Theatre on Broadway one summer night in 1888. It was a gala baseball night in honor of the visiting Chicago White Stockings and the management had clipped the tragi-comic verses out of the San Francisco Examiner for young Hopper to deliver as an added fillip between the acts of the operetta, Prince Methusalem...
...brining the score within reaching distance of a Lowell victory. The crowd was tense as Murphy stepped to the plate; even the Deacon and Bellboy stands were silent. Gilbert the king snake, Lowell mascot, nervously shed half his skin as two strikes were called. Then, contradicting the Casey legend, Murphy connected, and the Straus trophy was cinched...
...Bunnies hit Bob White for a pair of runs in each of the first two frames. Casey Hausserman Leverett hurler, buffaloed the Bellboys, except in the fifth inning when Rick Hedblom clouted a triple, driving in the losers' two runs...
Railroadman recalls the flavor of Casey Jones or The Wreck of the Old 97. It tells of railroading in the days before air brakes and automatic couplers-when there was no standard-gauge track; when engines were thrown into reverse to bring them to a sudden stop; when railroadmen were the true aristocrats of labor, with something of the prestige transport pilots have nowadays...