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This afternoon the Vagabond will visit the Coop--with a purpose. There he will purchase a flyswatter, mosquito netting, sticky paper, the most deadly exterminator, and the biggest Flit gun available. If that wasp or any more of the air corps drops in for a call tomorrow morning, they are going to catch a warm reception. The ground forces will be prepared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

...Scholl's corn pads . . . President Roosevelt, 8 x 10 . . . floor polish . . . screw drivers . . . garters . . . Melorol Mammoth Tulip Sundae . . . Flit . . . feathers . . . razor blades . . . Lucky Sapphire Birthday Brooches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Five & Ten Cent Bonds | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Boston's galaxy of hand-picked stars, the Red Sex, held their initial Boston practice in the Briggs Cage yesterday morning from 11 to 1 o'clock. With all the high-priced stars on hand, including Jimmy Foxx, Flit Cramer, Eric McNair, and Heinie Manush, the players went through limbering-up exercises and fielding practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIGH PRICED RED SEX STARS CAVORT ABOUT BRIGGS CAGE | 4/11/1936 | See Source »

This year, after one of the biggest deals in baseball history which brought Jimmy Foxx, Flit Cramer, Eric McNair, Johuny Marcum, and Heinie Manush to the local club, Collins finds himself at the head of a potential first place outfit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collins Refuses to Forecast First Place Position for Red Sox; Figures Them Potentially Strong | 1/15/1936 | See Source »

Days and weeks passed and then one day the President realized that he was about to flit off again on another vacation. It would never do for him to leave without allowing the members of the Court to do themselves the honor of calling on him. After all they were venerable men, whom it would be wanton folly to offend. So only an hour or two before his train departed Franklin Roosevelt had himself rolled from his office back to the White House proper and with his wife at his side not only received the formally-dressed oldsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: To Georgia | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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