Word: curleyism
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Collier's readers last week were given a pair of rosy-hued glasses through which to goggle at the progress and percentages of Boston's "Our Jim" Curley. But the tint wasn't applied heavily enough for one paragraph of Curleyana: that color should have been CRIMSON...
...Curley would hardly have granted an interview to his erstwhile tail-twisters, the Lampoon. So you can don the emerald green and read Collier's for August 10, or you can look up the CRIMSON for April 20 and get the facts--straight from the Mayor's mouth...
Intramural baseball hit midseason this week with Dudley's unbeaten Commuters leading the league and Leverett's Bunnies a slim half game off the pace. These clubs will clash Wednesday on the Freshman diamond for league supremacy, when fireballer Bob Curley is slated to take the mound for Dudley to oppose the deceptive slow curves of Bunny Bill Johnson...
Although the losers had the potential tieing run on third in the last of the fifth with one gone, pitcher Bob Curley registered two brilliant strike-outs to end the game, as a pair of Deacons swung wide at his blazing fastball...
Kirkland appeared to have a slight edge in the initial innings, but the Bellboys put on the pressure in a big four-run uprising in the top of the fourth, and were never again headed. Curley poled a tremendous homer to the Stadium wall in that frame with two mates aboard, after cohort Pete Marble had clouted another four-master with the sacks empty...