Word: cracker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sack St. Louis Browns, made headlines last week by practically putting itself out of business. To make ends meet, they sold their two best players: hard-hitting Third Baseman Bob Dillinger and an outfielder to the Philadelphia A's (for $100,000 and four players) and cracker jack Second Baseman Jerry Priddy to the Detroit Tigers (for $125,000 and a pitcher). To help inspire confidence among the players they have left, the Browns had hired a consulting psychologist...
Aiken, rejecting "transcendental theism and "cracker-barrel atheism," called for a re-interpretation of Christian testaments as "poetic myths expressing the ideal of man." He felt that "all values derive from the satisfaction of the wants...
...reporters by getting aboard the police-impounded yacht and scampering off with Mee's diary. Last March she got Septuagenarian Vic Shaw to tell the intimate story of her life as one of Chicago's best-known madams. (She sneeringly told Norma she was such a "little cracker you wouldn't be no good in a house.") Last summer Norma went after Chicago's quack doctors and had everything from electric vibrators to "atom water" prescribed for her imaginary ailments ; one of her "doctors" is now awaiting trial. That was the only time she was frightened...
Later, in the well-packed auditorium, Harry Truman began in his best cracker-barrel manner. The last time he had been in St. Paul (a month before election) "was quite a time," said Truman. "Didn't anybody think I'd be back here addressing you within one year from that Election Day as President of the United States. But here...
...worked as a part-time clerk in his father's general store in the Quebec village of Compton (pop. 1,000). Those were the days when Sir Wilfrid Laurier was leader of the Liberal Party. Young Louis lent an ear to all the hot & heavy political talk around the cracker barrel, and was an ardent Laurier Liberal from the start...