Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base-line between second and first, but suddenly wheeled and rifled the ball in to Regan at home plate. The throw was perfect to the plate, although it might have come a little sooner, but as Beinstein came sliding from third, the pellet popped out of Regan's glove and the winning Penn run had scored...
...winning tally came with two out in the eleventh inning. Up first, Waldstein popped to the catcher and Keyes reached first on an error by shortstop Cummings. On an attempted sacrifice bunt, Scully arched the ball into the pitcher's glove, but Keyes promptly stole second...
...brought him up from California's breadlines to nationwide headlines. Mead, recovering from a recent heart attack, had been forbidden to watch the fight or even listen to it on the radio. With tears streaming down his cheeks, he blubbered: "You'll never put on another glove, Henry." Henry soberly agreed that he had heard his last bell...
Essayist Richard Steele to Mary Scurlock (1707): ". . . You must give me either a fan, a mask or a glove you have worn, or I cannot live. . . ." Biographer James Boswell to Isabella de Zuylen (1764): "You have fine talents of one kind; but are you deficient in others? Do you think your reason is as distinguished as your imagination? Believe me, Zelide, it is not. Believe me and endeavor to improve. . . ." (She rejected him.) Field Marshal Gebhard von Bliicher to one Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision...
...garden, two highly civilized Americans who platonize in the house, an ill-matched Irish couple who come for the afternoon, and their Cockney chauffeur. The true centre is inhuman : it is Lucy, a falcon with "maniacal eyes," who rides the Irishwoman's wrist and devours, from her bloody glove, a new-slain pigeon. While the chauffeur and the servants go backstairs to evolve the cruel jealousies of simple blood, and the Americans maintain their delicately sterile balance, the Irish pair talk. Most of their talk is of the falcon, whom the husband hates to desperation, and to whom...