Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walt Stahura swung and missed on the first pitch, and then leveled a drive just over the left field fence, 325 feet away. Terrier outfielder Len Dempsey jumped over the low picket fence, but couldn't get the blast...
...third but I think this game will be our big one. We have a young team and our hopes will ride with Macleod." Cleverly will start Bill Formosi behind the plate, Nat Koppel at first, Jackie Murphy at second, Ed Aseley at third, and Don Cobleigh at short. Lon Dempsey, football captain Ken Hagerstrom, and John Sarno will play in the outfield...
...trouble was not in such modern old masters as Max Weber, the late Lyonel Feininger (see MILESTONES) and Marsden Hartley, who to British eyes were only American reflections of European trends. And in Edward Hopper's lonely city scenes and George Bellows' Dempsey and Firpo, the Sunday Times found "the real rude stuff of native American art." The pained cries of angry outrage were provoked by the abstract expressionists...
Also Ran. In North Adams, Mass., defeated in his drive to win a seat on the city council, Edward V. Dempsey submitted his expense form: "No contributions, no expenditures, no success...
...some unexpected contributions along with old favorites. Goya was a bullring aficionado. Winslow Homer, while covering the Civil War, took time out to paint Zouaves pitching quoits in camp. Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins painted scullers and wrestlers; George Bellows not only haunted the fight ring painting boxing classics (Dempsey and Firpo), but also painted tennis at Newport and polo at Lakewood. In Ground Swell, Edward Hopper caught every yachtsman's thrill at passing the last buoy and heading seaward in a light breeze...