Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connell executed the Squeeze play, and beat Barbee's throw to the plate, but Umpire Baltzel ruled that Cole was not in his box and Connell, therefore, had to go back to third. Connell came running in again on the next pitched ball, but this time Cole hit a foul tip that was just wide enough to escape Chauncey's ready glove. On the next ball, however, Connell's mighty efforts to reach home proved successful due to Barbee's wild pitch. Cole and Sanford then struck...
OBSCENE: Filthy, foul, disgusting, offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something that delicacy, purity and decency forbid to be exposed; to be impure, indecent, unchaste, lewd...
...company sharing her earnestness and schooled by her to simplicity of gesture and the slow pace of portentous happenings. Their execution fell short of hers? Michael Strange (Mrs. John Barrymore) slipping sometimes into picayune realism in the role of Chrysothemis, Ruth Holt Boucicault being a trifle shallow as foul Clytemnestra. But lack of preparation was their ample excuse. That their few flaws would soon be remedied seemed likely when, the play's two-day run being highly acclaimed, it was moved into the Al Jolson Theatre for an indefinite...
Last week in Maiden, Mass., the Olympic champions from Uruguay and the Boston Americans were plying each other with authentic socker, when Boston jumped into a 3 to 2 lead on a Uruguay foul. The South Americans thought they had been given an unfair decision...
...cases brought to him. The acid worked; it prevented development of horrid "hospital gangrene." Joseph Lister had discovered antisepsis and thenceforth surgery became cleanly. Surgeons now wash their hands before operating; and they wear sterilized gloves, caps and aprons, and even tie gauze masks over their mouths to prevent foul breath contaminating the entrails of patients. Many surgeons realize the "why" of their precautions; most take their procedure for granted. Lister to them, as to the vast majority of their patients, is now-except for a mild centennial-only a name, a Hippocrates, a Galen, a little revered Esculapius...