Word: daffyness
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Results, according to the British story: five Italian aircraft were shot down by Fulmar Gladiators and antiaircraft; and four others were chased almost to Sicily. The next day Britons, who refuse to take Italian warriors seriously, speculated about the dive bombers' design (they are probably the planes approved only...
Last April, in their opening game of the season, the mighty New York Yankees were humiliated by Chubby Dean of the Athletics, a pitcher as obscure as Dizzy and Daffy (no kin) are famed. ''Oh, those things happen," droned U. S. baseball fans, almost to a man agreeing...
But to this generation of Dodger fans, as devoted as they are daffy, the 1940 team is second to none. Even rival clubs admit the Dodgers have a crack infield and their pitchers have made them blink. Brooklyn may not boast a DiMaggio or a Feller, but, in its first...
After last week's no-hitter, Brooklynites had daffy dreams: an unbroken string of 10, 20, 30 victories. Next day they were jerked out of their trance. Against Cincinnati's Bucky Walters, the National League's No. 1 pitcher, the modern Superbas looked less superb, were defeated...
Ladies in Retirement is one of those hard-hitting, old-fashioned melodramas which somehow make the newfangled ones look sick. It is very English (even the daffy sisters remain outdoor girls to the last), but it makes a genteel Victorian parlor seem more sinister than any number of opium dens...