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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Senators' second baseman, with his spikes. Myer fell, picked himself up and then before Chapman could get up, kicked his leg. This was the incident which last week started the liveliest baseball fight in years. Players from both teams rushed out on the field. Manager Joe Cronin of Washington caught Chapman after he had taken a few punches at Myer. Umpires George Moriarty and Harry Geisel managed to restrain other players before the fight became general. They ordered Myer and Chapman off the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Fight | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

Contenders with the Yankees this year may well be the Washington Senators with a young manager, Joe Cronin, 26, to replace Walter Johnson, and their old Leon ("Goose") Goslin back in left field after three years with the St. Louis Browns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...relationship between her husband and his cousin. The manner in which one such ambiguity generates another, and ends by alienating the heroine from her husband, from her son, and finally from the religion in which she has taken refuge, is distinctly suggestive of the manner of Thomas Hardy. Dr. Cronin's literary sojourn in Wessex is perhaps the most important of the several influences to be detected in his work. It appears not only in the implicit irony of his tale, but also in the "tendency to take his vocabulary for an airing." Such redundant phrases, frequently occurring, as "protested...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 6/1/1932 | See Source »

...Caledonian economy of the Moral Law, Sin is paid wages, Death; but Virtue must be its own reward. Scotsman Cronin, in his story of the three-love-life of Lucy Moore, shows how Virtue, by seeking rewards other than itself, becomes a Sin, and gets the sinful wage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queer Fish | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...fails to meet her train, she waits for him on the station platform until she falls. After a brief agony in a hospital, Death pays her wages in full. Beginning, as in Hatter's Castle, with a cloud no bigger than a man's hand, Author Cronin by slow degrees enfolds his unforgettable characters in a Scottish mist, made not only of Nature's weeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queer Fish | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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