Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister Raymond Poincare, last week, he had himself held that office on previous occasions eleven times. He was now to make it twelve times?for last week party leaders of the numerous chamber factions agreed, almost unanimously, that no one could fill the political void created by M. Poincaré except M. Briand...
...with such persistence and missionary zeal that the two returned from Europe as man and wife. Soon Mary Victoria was pregnant, too, but that did not prevent Welding from deserting her "to find a place where there are high mountains and snows that never melt and nothing else except loneliness." Mary Victoria remained with her father because, "even though I have lost love, I may become a power for good in the life of my child." Milly went to New York on the trail of "something worth loving...
...distance when the batter misses it. The Grove record up to last week-end was 16 won, 2 lost. Pitcher Grimes of Pittsburgh had the same record. Part of the Grimes effectiveness results from the fact that he throws a spitball.* Some years ago the spitball was barred except for pitchers who had already specialized in it. There are now hardly any oldtime spitballers left, so Pitcher Grimes has something of an advantage over hitters to whom the spitball is strange and disturbing. But Pitcher Grimes has also an excellent and legal curve, long years of experience, an aggressive disposition...
Even more sensational than Player Ott has been Player James Emory Foxx, present first baseman of the "Athletics." A versatile youth, he can play any position except the pitcher's, was used at third base (his favorite spot), in the outfield and at catching before settling down in his present position. Player Foxx went to the Athletics in 1924 from the Easton Team of the litle Eastern Shore (Maryland) League. Last year (the first in which he played more than 100 games) he batted .328. This year he has joined...
Halterophora Capitata, informally known as the Mediterranean fruit fly, arrived in Florida mysteriously, probably late last year. Some say it may have traveled in the straw around the liquor-bottles on a rumboat. It is a fly which settles in any kind of fruit except watermelons and pineapples, or in vegetables if fruit is not handy. One fruit fly will lay 800 eggs. An orange, lemon or grapefruit in which 800 little fruit flies are hatching soon becomes a horrible, maggoty thing. Since last May, when a U. S. Department of Agriculture representative bit into a flyblown orange and gave...