Word: cobbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Moments after B.C.'s freshman guard Ernie Cobb had turned a perfect evening for Harvard basketball loyalists (all 23 of them) into the team's fourth consecutive defeat, Coach Tom Sanders was asked how he planned to offset the letdown which would probably ensue after his squad's emotional performance that evening...
...conspiracy charges, but Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended them from the game for life. Risberg retired to his Minnesota dairy farm to brood. Six years later, he decided to try to sweep the slate clean with a declaration that he and other White Sox players had paid Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers to "slough off a Labor Day series that allowed Chicago to clinch the 1917 American League pennant...
...then there was the time that the Growler had his 79th birthday. The Growler was one of those dyed-in-the-wool ex-ballplayers from the Ty Cobb era who hadn't missed a Clinton home game in 60 years. When his birthday came around, the Clinton management presented him with a cake at home plate between the fourth and fifth innings...
Works of Couperin, Strauss, Debussy, and Faure; Marcel Bardon, cellist, and John Cobb, pianist; Holmes Living Room...
...director, Elia Kazan earned a niche in theatrical history with considerable help from classic scripts (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) and talented actors (Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Lee J. Cobb). Kazan's second career in the solitary business of writing has so far resulted in three commercially successful novels that tend to thrash about in alien corn. There is nothing wrong with The Understudy, for instance, that a good script and some believable characters would not help...