Word: grunting
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Next day Sport Writer Williams of the New York Evening Tele-grunt meditated gravely on teacups and the apparent discrepancies between opera and sports arena. Mr. Williams distinctly recalled a recent prizefight in which Michael McTigue lost the light-heavyweight championship to Thomas Loughran (TIME, Oct. 17), chiefly, according to Mr. Williams, because, Mr. McTigue waited until the last rest between rounds to "toss off" a teacup of something. He recalled Rube Wadell, baseball pitcher, who sat over his teacups all one night before his pitching masterpiece?a game against Detroit in which Ty Cobb, first man up, bunted safely...
...about to inquire the reason when Eddas clutched my arm convulsively and pointed to the rear. Turning as rapidly as I could, I was just in time to see a mounted figure disappear behind a ridge a mile away. At the same moment 'Ham and--" gave a grunt and indicated a group of three camel men to the right and almost abreast of us, but at a distance of a mile or more. They were evidently attempting to head us off, for their Meharis were trotting swiftly...
Miss Leginska then commenting on a certain peculiarity which was noticeable at the last Pierian rehearsal said, "Everyonce in a while during the rehearsal. I heard the cutest little grunt from one of the string sections. I am going to try to compose a piece which will give them a chance to display their pretty little grunt. I think that by the end of the next practice, the orchestra will be in a fair way to give a truly successful concert...
...Negro who attacked her, and Albert Blazes was a Negro. The bloodhounds had brought him in. Now the sheriff was holding him until he got what was coming to him; he must know what that was. One of the deputies bent to trim the lantern when a grunt from the sheriff stopped his hand; the three men and the huddled shadow listened intently. It was beginning. Darkly, softly borne on the dark soft air, a noise of voices reached the warehouse?tumbled cries, deep and shrill blended together, struck through with the note of an automobile horn continuously blowing. They...
...this moment a second bear gave a grunt of ecstatic delight and lumbered off full speed after the first. The ball gave a dying flop and settled in a rut. The first bear fell over it and the second bear fell over the first. Then began a battle for the ball which was "torn to shreds...