Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pitch. That was about as far as hot-tempered, brawling Leo Durocher dared to go, whatever the provocation. Baseball's $50,000-a-year Commissioner "Happy" Chandler already had two strikes on The Lip for past crimes and misdemeanors; another brawl would be strike three and out. In 1947, Chandler had suspended Durocher for the season for "conduct detrimental to baseball." Twice recently he had disciplined Lippy for minor offenses: for hiring Coach Fred Fitzsimmons when Fred's old club wasn't looking, and for a pre-season row with an umpire...
...want to paint a tree," he cried, "for heaven's sake make it look like a tree! . . . Now, you go to the Tate, and there in a room on the right you'll see a picture by Matisse called...
...fatuous conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, over a transatlantic telephone to a U.S. newsman: "It doesn't feel like 70 at all, old boy. It doesn't feel like anything at all, and I'll feel like that at 75 and 80 and beyond. I'll go on conducting to the end of my days, which is a hell...
...among the best doctors of the age, combining high professional skill with a highly popular bedside manner." Said the Manchester Guardian: "Sir Thomas . . . has always been and will always be an individualist. Everybody, including those on whose corns he has trodden, will wish him many years of life to go on being...
Flanked by Lady Beecham, he turned up at a reception, received a 15-lb. cake from the U.S.'s RCA Victor, replied to a toast by apologizing for not having anything cutting to say ("It is only before vast audiences that I let myself go...