Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...
Last week, after 19 years of baseball, during which he tried to conceal his intellectual background, Catcher Berg at last removed his mask. Quitting the game he loved even more than his books, Morris Berg, A.B., LL.D, accepted a Government appointment as roving envoy to Mexico and Central America-a good-will post created by the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics...
...Plain Dealer that "the stupid fool who cannot, in this age of thrilling events, 'throw some fire into his writings ought to throw his writings into the fire.' " Cleveland was then a mudhole of 6,000 population and six newspapers, including the Eagle-Eyed News Catcher. Editor Gray put his fire into nose-thumbing rhetoric, got himself sued by Horace Greeley, denounced by Charles Dickens (then touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came to the Plain Dealer when its "Commercial Editor," Charles Farrar Brown, started a humorous column signed "Artemus Ward...
...triple play in the fifth inning by the Hamblers saved the day for hurler George Cait. With the bases loaded, catcher George MacDonald caught a foul fly off the netting, and pegged to second sacker Guy Mell who tagged the Bellboy coming from first and touched the base to complete the triple killing...
...Mayors' lobby which is expert in raiding the Federal Treasury, that he is a fat little bumptious character, clowning and screaming dictatorially, posing for pictures in chef's hats, fireman's hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy Sunday, "Schnozzle" Durante, "Chico" Marx and a fire siren...