Word: cubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Cardinals, fourth in the National League standing but pressing hard behind the see-sawing Giants and Robins: a 20-inning game?longest of the season?with the league-leading Cubs in Chicago, 8 to 7. Eight pitchers were used, five of them by the Cubs. Next day the Cubs won the second game of the series 9 to 8 in the 13th inning, after scoring 5 runs in the ninth to tie, 5-5, pulling even again 8-8 in the nth. In the third game burly Hack Wilson, Cub centrefielder, drove his 45th homerun of the season...
Untrue is the longstanding legend of the Star office that a cub reporter of 15 years ago was fired when he revealed a snake tattooed on his arm.* But it is true and well-remembered that last year a syndicated comic strip was doctored by the Times to transform a tiny snake into a toad (TIME...
...reporter of the story, Erie Smith, now vice president of American Eagle Aircraft Co. in Kansas City, is so tattooed. But he jovially recalls: "The fact is I was such a damn rotten cub reporter that Longan fired me after three weeks work. The boys on the Star ascribed my dismissal to the snake, but 1 always gave Longan the long end of a long doubt...
Roscoe Turner, lieut.-colonel in the Nevada National Guard, in a uniform of his own devising-horizon blue tunic. whipcord breeches, braid, boots, flying insignia-with a lion cub as supercargo, last week tried to surpass Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's recent swift flight across the continent (TIME, April 28).† Like Col. Lindbergh. Lieut.-Colonel Turner flew a Lockheed plane, but one more powerfully motored. Col. Lindbergh carried his wife as copilot. On her account he was obliged to make the flight as jarless as possible. That meant smoothly overcoming all air conditions, no excuses valid. They reached...