Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world that Charles S. Chaplin could act. George fell in love with her and she might have married him- he was such a good listener-until he spoiled his chances by taking her to a ball game. There she saw Tiny Tyler, the home-run kind, make an incredible catch, "as God might pick a comet." She insisted on meeting him. He wore diamond shirt studs in his evening clothes, but that didn't matter-the result of meeting was amorosity at first sight. Judith did her best to play Cleopatra to Tiny, but her ancestors were against...
...produce instant uproar,--not only on the stage but off. Occasional periods of silence on the stage are filled with the giggles and titters of the more emotional members of the audience, often swallowing up some significant mysterious noise, and it is not hard to believe that the actors catch the panicky spirit that they themselves have produced...
This week Stevens will give individual attention to those men who can arrange to go out with him in a pair oared in order to get such points in his system as a longer slide and leg drive and sitting straighter at the catch and finish...
...house organ, is told in a rippling mélange of anecdote, esthetics and idealism. "Dat feller is painting God mitoudt seeing him," said one Croatian, sweaty with coal dust. They like it and are proud to work for "Hydraulic." Beneker has a flair for the descriptive title to catch the worker's imagination-" Galvanized American " "Men Are Square," Gray Matter " ("portrait" of a huge hydraulic press). He traces the lineage of Industrial Art to Velasquez and his Forge of Vulcan, painted in Italy for Philip IV of Spain...
...artificial light. One hundred flood lights were employed and illuminated the field so completely that industrial teams played a full nine-inning game without inconvenience. National League officials were not inclined to take the report seriously. " The intense brilliance of clustered lights against which the players would have to catch flies will eliminate night baseball as a serious consideration among professional teams...