Word: heaver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...razzle-dazzle performance, the Mississippi rookie outshone all the rest. He had started ten games, finished ten, won nine (four of them by shutouts), pitched 85 scoreless innings out of 95, inciting breast-beating Bostonians to claim that they had the greatest heaver since Bob Feller...
Leading the team from the tailback spot will be Ed Navin, flashy runner and pass-heaver. In the Saturday scrimmage, Navin accounted for the afternoon's only score almost single-handedly. He passed his squad down to the 15 yard stripe and drove it overland from there to the one on two plays, after which Bill Jenkins took it across...
...chauffeur spent hours signing autograph books while waiting for the General. Most surprised person during the tour was a coal heaver in a railway yard who suddenly saw Monty before him, got a hearty handshake and a blunt compliment...
...until its destruction by a Nazi bomb. Among its starry occupants are Charles Laughton (a tipsy butler), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (a plumber), Claude Rains (a rich villain), Roland Young (a boarder), Merle Oberon (a desk clerk), Anna Neagle (a grownup foundling). Good scene: Brian Aherne (a coal heaver) making love to Ida Lupino (a scullery maid...
...with a neat division of talents. They write in a tradition founded by such rugged journalists as the Oregonian's famed Harvey W. Scott, an erudite, walrus-faced editor who prowled the office in stocking feet for 40 years, and by Albert Hawkins, ex-cabin boy and coal-heaver, who liked best to write about education, science and Pacific Northwest history...