Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time's sake the President had his onetime close adviser Bernard Baruch to lunch and took him to the postponed opening game of the baseball season between Washington and Boston. President Roosevelt threw out the first ball and soon after was almost struck by a high foul which fell on the seat next to him. Secret Service men fell over themselves trying in vain to catch it. The President grinned at "Barney" Baruch: "Another foot nearer and there might have been a national catastrophe." Soon threatening clouds filled the sky. Said the President: "We'll stay until...
...before the spectators, remembering that Miss Lloyd (U. S. champion in 1928 and 1931) was the only woman who defeated Miss Mayer in the 1928 Olympics, saw that she might really do it again. The foils flashed slowly until Miss Lloyd started an advance that ended with a foul. They parried cautiously again, the foils barely catching light in the long mirrors at the end of the room. Then, in a sudden, brilliantly quick attack, Miss Lloyd scored the deciding point with a direct lunge. Miss Mayer's defeat was surprising but not significant. Miss Lloyd, having lost three...
...passport did not have a Turkish visa and they refused. Desperate, she tried to push past them at the ship's rail. One of them seized her shoulder. She wrenched to get away, toppled backwards, slid over the rail into the harbor. She came up blowing the foul water from her mouth. A sailor with a boat hook fished her out. They carried her prostrate and drenched back to her cabin and the Rumania steamed off carrying her back to Athens...
...tinder. The better tenements have one toilet to a floor, but when one block was recently razed, the only sanitary facility discovered was a row of holes in a board in the backyard. Garbage is tossed out windows. In some, a match struck in the halls will illumine the foul air as if it were a fog. Death, pestilence, starvation and crime scurry unchecked through the dank rookeries of the Ghetto, Red Hook, Harlem and San Juan Hill. Slums have been a festering social problem for more than a century but Manhattan's death roster of the last...
...country by a gang of Rumanians. Samuel Insull had been hauled to the top of a cliff in a basket to take refuge with the monks of Mount Athos. Finally from the harbor master of Piraeus, Athens' port seven miles away, came a report that a rusty foul-smelling little tramp steamer known as the Maiotis had cleared for parts unknown with Samuel Insull as its only passenger. Further investigation showed that Samuel Insull had dyed his hair and mustache black, put on nobby Athenian clothes and walked out of his hotel unnoticed. Also he had paid...