Word: hassocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are two changes in the CRIMSON nine, Robby Feller being choson for pitching in place of Morry Earle and Cappy Weinberger, the sunkist San Francisco slugger, taking ever the second hassock instead of the former choice, a far less wily willow wielder...
...formerly felt toward artists and writers, she declared fiercely: "I'd hate to have these Indians get recognition! Why, it would be the end of them!" Her first stop was at an adobe hut where a blanketed full-blooded Indian named Tony Luhan sat on a hassock beating a drum and singing. Tony was a large-featured, husky, hairless, sedate man with "nice eyelids" and beautifully plucked eyebrows. When he finally looked up, Mabel "saw his was the face that had blotted out [husband] Maurice's in my dream." Tony said he had seen her before too-also...
...prosperity and with its rigidly high standards of advertising. He was a stickler for efficiency, a pocket-sized dynamo of energy. As many as 18 hours a day he might sit at his desk, his dwarfed body perched on a high cushion, his feet touching a tall hassock beneath the desk. A half dozen visitors or subordinates usually sat in chairs around the walls, waiting their turn to talk with Mr. Wiley. He was quietly, courteously brisk. While listening intently to an underling he might sign letters, scribble instructions...