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Shoals gets $500 a month to play first base and manage the team. Reyes makes $275 at third. Many a Kingsport fan comes out to the ball game just to see Reyes lumber up to the plate, shift his cud of tobacco, wag his massive hindquarters at the crowd and growl at the catcher. The crowd likes the volatile Cubans, too; sometimes one of them steals a base, not because the situation warrants it, but simply because he is in the mood...
...swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh...
Gropins was alarmed at "today's complete separation of design from the execution of buildings, of the drafting board from the building site." "This," he said while at the University and repeats now, "is artificial, and has led the architect to a dead cud...
Braz rambles a good bit. He often seems more interested in chewing his philosophical cud than in telling his story. He will drop everything else for an epigram. Samples: "We kill time; time buries us." "One endures with patience the pain in the other fellow's stomach." From his ghost world, he sums up his life on earth as a zero. He has one" satisfaction: "I had no progeny, I transmitted to no one the legacy of our misery." That, Braz figures, makes him a "small winner...
...Suppose ye was standin' at th' corner iv State Sthreet and Archey R-road," Mr. Dooley mused. "Wud ye know what car to take to get to th' Ph'lippeens? If yer son Packy was to ask ye where th' Ph'lippeens is, cud ye give him anny good idea whether they was in Rooshia or jus' west iv th' thracks? . . . An' what shud I do with the Ph'lippeens? ... I can't annex thim because I don't know where they...