Word: foul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chorus was divided-a part of it in each of the rivals' corners. Choral shouts mingled with the principals' gasps, with the thud of leather on flesh, with the nervous shrieks of the piccolo. The climax arrived with the referee's musical cry of "Foul! !", which "rent the ear" and which was followed by the trained diapason of hoots and yowls from rival corners...
...Country Club. There is a links. It was somewhere near the eleventh or twelfth hole?accounts vary?somewhere near one of these holes, on a pleasant June day, that a foursome was in progress. Part of it was on the fair green and part of it was in the foul. The part on the fair green consisted of Senators Joseph T. Robinson and Andrieus A. Jones. The part in the foul was Senators Thomas J. Walsh and John B. Kendrick. These latter had lost, or had failed to discover, their balls...
Dartmouth suffered an unfortunate break two weeks ago when Austin, speedy right fielder, ran into the stands while in pursuit of a foul fly, fracturing a bone in his left forearm. He is out for the season. He led off the Dartmouth batting order and had hit for 280 in 18 games while fielding his position without a miscue...
...first and second, but Norton, Dean first-sacker, made a sensational back-hand stab and threw Keene out at second. Maher beat out an infield hit. Amsden singled cleanly to center, and Field slid in home safely. With the tying and winning runs on base, Cotter lifted an easy foul to the first baseman...
...Wilbur Theatre, was broadcasting the story of the contest to radio fans through Station WNAC, the Shepard Stores. His witty comments drew to the spot a large circle of spectators, who chortled with glee when the comedian seriously made through the microphone such remarks as "Hammond knocks a foul into the grandstand.... It hits a man in an empty seat", and "The umpire calls a balk, Williams demands a recount... The umpire wins...