Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course I may be wrong but I think it shows a lacking of respectfulness for one of the world's greatest women when you said the following: "Among singers who will appear is old Ernestine Schumann-Heink, in her 'positive farewell to the Pacific Coast...
...expensive, theoretically strong, but actually little better than Chicago. They considered personalities: Ed Morris, Boston pitcher, called the best youngster in either league; Chalmers Cissel, swaggering Chicago shortstop who, drying himself in a locker room, said scornfully in early season: "Major league pitching is more of a cinch than Coast League," who the week before the Fourth batted .240. They considered National League personalities: those famed roommates and Cincinnati outfielders, Marty Callaghan and Everett ("Pid") Purdy- Callaghan tobacco-chewing, closemouthed, bearing himself with a martyred manner before umpires; pert Purdy, the chatterer, the magpie. They considered Andy Cohen, smart...
...Film Corp. and Wesco Corp. (Pacific Coast theatres), making a total of 295 theatres under William...
Along the green and white, cool coast from San Francisco to Grants Pass, Ore. (482 miles), a man in moccasins ran lightly and slowly, living up to a name. He, Flying Cloud, Indian Marathoner, first reached the post office in Grants Pass, beating Melika, 58-year old Zufri, and Chief Ukiah, puffing miles behind. him. Flying Cloud won $5,000. Another $5,000 was divided among the men who finished...
...miles). "Unduly preferential," they cried, technically. They explained: Eastern railroads should serve Eastern shippers, benefiting by short rail hauls to the Atlantic, low water rates to the Pacific. Cutthroat reductions by the I.C.R.R. will divert traffic to Chicago, thence to New Orleans, thence by the Redwood Line to the coast...