Word: gonfalon
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...last Chicago team to be this dominant also had a Big Three. The 1906 Cubs won an amazing 116 games to 36 losses and inspired Franklin P. Adams to write his famous verse: "Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble/Making a Giant hit into a double/ Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble/Tinker to Evers to Chance...
Pippen to Rodman to Air has a nice sort of ring to it, but before anyone starts writing poems about dese Bulls, he or she might want to consider this: the Cubs' gonfalon bubble in 1906 was burst by the White...
...Senior Soiree, "the stereotypical women's college event," merely illustrated the lack of contact that Mr. Kurzman has had with Radcliffe. Harvard and Radcliffe are both institutions that expect a certain amount of individual responsibility. Radcliffe does an extraordinary job of publicizing its resources through such publications as the Gonfalon, mailed free of charge to any undergraduate requesting...
Bill Lee--that old gonfalon of Red Sox past--once said that Zimmer had to pass his driver's test before he could manage a professional baseball team. But gerbils just don't drive--they sniff and sneak and scurry their way out of the maze. And if the O's are demolished in a plane crash, (or if Earl Weaver sniff too much glue), then Don Zimmer's beady eyes might finally sit still at the end of the season. Besides, Zimmer is the right man for the job. In the American League East, a rodent's instincts...
...week the newspapers had gushed of "the gonfalon" and "a new era" but when one joined the fans moving across the Brookline Avenue bridge to the park it was clear that they at least had not changed. Sausage-necked goons stiff-walked in time to their own larded drummers. Little boys in loose t-shirts whom I remembered as urchins had been transformed into juvenile delinquents by Nancy Sinatra and television commercials. Teenagers whom I remembered as juvenile delinquents had been transformed into flabby facists by the Record American and television commercials. And students from intown colleges, fat thighs wrapped...