Word: center
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Disgraceful. A crowd in Newark, N. J., hooted and jeered. Ringside humorists expressed the idea that they had come to see a boxing match, not a pillow fight between a couple of roommates. In the center of the ring Paul Berlenbach, cloudy-faced Light Heavyweight Champion, stood with his huge arms around Tony Marullo, New Orleans fondler. Now and then they stepped apart, dealt each other coy fillips. The referee warned the fighters against petting. They did not heed. Customers' catcalls grew louder. At length the referee ended the disgraceful scene, ordered both from the ring...
Then come the social columns and personal mention. "George W. (Mike) Murphy was the center of a lively little party in the Gales Ferry dining room last evening. The occasion was his coming of age (21) but as Ruth Van Phul would say, 'nobody would ever guess it. The dinner was a riot of color and the odor of condensed milk could be distinctly observed...
...moral of these three little fables, selected at random from a large number, is distressingly clear. Cambridge is not, in the summer time, a center of scholarly reflection and philosophic calm. It is on the contrary a barren desert, a dry waste in which there is no life but the feeble twittering of the summer school. And the reason for it all is that the average overworked professor, far from remaining to pursue his researches, follows as rapidly as he can the line of fastest departure for the seashore and the woods--precisely, in fact, like the average overworked undergraduate...
...visiting right fielder led off with a single and was sacrificed to second in the fourth inning. Ray got a hit to center, and stole second while Daker was striking out. With two down, it seemed that Toulmin had pitched himself out of a bad hole, but he reversed his luck on the next play when he foozled Tobin's toss to catch the runner at first, and two runs scored. Captain Hammond followed this with his only error of the game and when Toulmin passed Moulton, the bases were filled. The Crimson hurler rose to the occasion, however...
...seventh, the second Hammond triple scored a run, when Rogers lifted a long sacrifice fly to Ray in center-field. The last Crimson tally came in the eighth off Price, who replaced Hamilton. Zarakov drove a sharp grounder through second base and took third on Roland's hit to the same place. Todd walked, and Samborski scored Zarakov with a high sacrifice fly to right field. Tobin lined to the third baseman who caught Roland at the plate...