Word: fadeaways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks that treat her as an equal, but the whole gamut of her staccato experience, pertly recorded, actually affects...
...battery, much has already been said. To be brief, it has everything--speed, curves, a change of pace, a drop, a fadeaway. The baseball management will supply it with gloves, a mask and a chest protector. What more could a battery want?SNAPPED IN AN INFORMAL POSE DURING FIGHT TALK MANAGER OF CRIMSON TEAM...
...World series. Between the college games and that 1905 series was a story known to almost everyone in the U. S.-the story of how Mathewson, after one brilliant season with Smith's Norfolkers, was bought by the New York Giants, how he had perfected his famed "fadeaway," studied the personal weaknesses of every batter who opposed him, become recognized as the master baseball technician...
...National League pennant. Mordecai Brown-the pitcher with the pirate's name-worsted him in that struggle, "the hardest game," Mathewson said, "of my life." In 1914 he injured his right shoulder. Still, with speed impaired, he could win games with his curves, his strategy, his matchless fadeaway. For a while, he tried without much success, to manage Cincinnati. When the U. S. entered the War, he enlisted in the Gas Service...