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Word: fronted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the front office was counting up the gate receipts ($38,000), most of which goes to indigent ballplayers, Cincinnati's townsfolk were heaping praise on the grizzled head of William Boyd McKechnie, mild-mannered manager of the amazing Reds. Not only was Starting Pitcher Vander Meer credited with the victory, but Catcher Ernie Lombardi, rookie First Baseman Frank McCormick and Outfielder Ival Goodman turned in creditable performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red Stars | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...with the New York Yankees) on the Fourth. Level-headed experts, however, still favored the Yankees and Giants to meet in another subway series in New York City next October. If the Reds, who were seven games behind the league-leading Giants last week, should come home in front, Bill McKechnie, who won pennants for the Pirates (1925) and Cardinals (1928) during his 15-year career as big-league manager,* will be the first manager ever to win a pennant in three different cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red Stars | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...From a front-page editorial in the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer entitled HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN by Publisher John Boettiger, son-in-law of President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editorial-of-the-Week | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Emily Welsh in the family way, and Emily's brother Tip smashed in the side of his head. There was consternation in the poolrooms. No one but Sam could hold the rackets together. At once his generals began quarreling. Just before Sam died in a friend's front parlor Max tried to get the doctor to give him an injection so he could say a few words in the presence of witnesses. Outside on the sidewalk, in the dawn, Art and Perry and Cork stood with shoulders hunched and hands in pockets, wondering bleakly what was to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Toughs | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...story of the war: when Rickett got Ethiopia's oil and mineral rights from Haile Selassie. In Scoop, poor blundering William Boot is far more fortunate. He falls in love with a German girl, stays in the capital when rival correspondents are sent out to a non-existent front, scoops the world when Communists pull a coup d'etat, are frustrated by a mysterious British financier. Although in parts as funny as anything that Waugh has written, it sounds just a shade too much like wish fulfillment to have the true cold blood of satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wrong Boot | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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