Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ELIJAH COBB (1768-1848): A CAPE COD SKIPPER-With a foreword by Ralph D. Paine-Yale University Press...
...Bennett, Riverdale Country School, Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y.; Harold Berliner, Boston Latin School; Clarence Edwin Brown, Cambridge High and Latin School; Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Jr., Cambridge High and Latin School; Dean Chamberlin, Exeter; Grover Arvel Chenoweth, Boston Latin School; Albert Goodwill Churchill, Browne and Nichols School; Henry Ives Cobb, 3d., Groton...
Excitement confusing sense impressions, making recognizable the smell of the "Star Spangled Banner" as played on a brass band, the noises of two-for-a-quarter cigars, of D'jer Kiss, of this morning's breakfast, the taste of anticipation. Bowlegged Honus Wagner and spry Tyrus Cobb, survivors of a Pittsburgh-Detroit World Series 16 years ago, pushed together seats through the press section; a white team (Pittsburg), a grey team (Washington), which had been warming up along the edges of a field earnestly green, looked up at a box wherein Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, stood with...
HERE COMES THE BRIDE-Irvin S. Cobb-Doran ($2.00). With the air of a man rolling a cigar in his mouth, savoring it, puffing, chewing the butt, spurting forth smooth smoke-curls and rich juices as the philosophical fruits of his rumination, Humorist Cobb drawls on and on about intoxicants, ancestors, being homely, the zoo, national holidays, Christmas presents "and so forth." Very different from "chewing the rag." He is the delight of a vast audience that relishes: an elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge...
...baseball's Götterdämmerung. Babe Ruth, home run magnate, "attended by the sympathy of the Nation" and press, lay in Manhattan, stricken with cold, run-down condition, influenza, indigestion and a bump on the head. In Nashville, Tenn., visited with far less solicitude, Tyrus Cobb, "the greatest player m baseball," took to his bed with influenza. A few days ago, shortly before the season opened, 12 other able players were retired from their lineups with injuries received in play or colds: Wright-stone, Philadelphia Phillies, broken finger; Maranville, Chicago Cubs, broken leg; Grigsby, Chicago Cubs, broken...