Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jess Willard was the first to tally a goal, making it on a pass from Pete Zouck, Sophomore out home man. In the third period Gordon Halstead chalked up a second point on a pass from Frank Downey. Zouck, made the third goal unassisted in the last of the 15-minute cantos...
...Frank Reagan did not start on the mound for the University of Pennsylvania, as scheduled, but was effective in the three frames he pitched, limiting Harvard...
...should trip over it in a minuet." Dorothy Thompson, "the Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous comment that he will direct at a straw man." Boake Carter "could enter any intellectual goldfish swallowing contest." Arthur Krock "sometimes permits himself, without abating a whit of his stately authoritativeness, to 'hit too closely to the belt." Heywood Broun...
Hold Tight was originally conjured up in Harlem's "Congo" district where a black and elemental breed of cats drink cheap King Kong liquor, puff reefers and shout a frank and sexy jive talk all their own. Jewish Swingsters Larry Kent and Jerry Brandow joined with Negro Swingsters Willie Spotswood, Ed Robinson and Leonard Ware in publishing it last January through Exclusive Publications, Inc. under the group names Kent Brandow and Robinson Ware Spotswood. Soon it was being innocently squalled all over the land...
...scandalous Black Sox Series of 1919. That they are the experts' choice this year is due to: 1) the ablest pitching staff in the league (headed by Paul Derringer, Lee Grissom, Johnny Vander Meer); 2) some of the best hitters (Batting Champion Ernie Lombardi, Ival Goodman, Frank McCormick); 3) Manager Bill McKechnie...