Word: heeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best fielding first baseman in the league. In July, there were rumors he might lose his job. In August he snapped his team out of a losing streak by forbidding them to play poker. For the past three weeks, he has been superstitiously driving a nail into the heel of his shoe before each game. A capable baritone, banjoist and bagatelle player, nephew of Director George P. Vierheller of the St Louis Zoo, Manager Grimm has worried himself from 195 to 175 lb. since April. Last week, his worries partly over he made the bold announcement which is invariably demanded...
...trying to realize the Nazi dream of a perfect "Totalitarian State," Adolf Hitler has notably failed to bring to heel Germany's devout Protestant pastors and their congregations. So thoroughly has the Nazi Reich Bishop, blustering onetime Army Chaplain Luclwig Miiller, been frustrated in his efforts to dragoon these pastors into the State's German Christian Church, that last week Realmleader Hitler's only recourse was to try a finesse. His Minister of Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl. dispatched an emissary to a meeting of the opposition pastors' Prussian Confessional Synod at Berlin. Surprisingly, he offered...
Approval in Advance. Extremely flattering to the Party Congress was an abrupt order from the Realmleader summoning all Deputies of the German Reichstag to attend him in Nurnberg, this being the first time Herr Hitler has called his Parliament to heel at such a distance from Berlin...
Shrewd Franklin Roosevelt never let his Bonus marchers get the Washington spotlight. Quick as querulous, down-at-heel veterans began shuffling into Washington, he began shipping them off to special relief camps in the South. In eleven such camps last week?seven in Florida, four in South Carolina?some 2,500 derelicts were being housed, fed, paid $30 to $45 per month...
...shadow of Benito Mussolini, generally from three to ten paces behind him on all public occasions, strides pantherlike Achille Starace. If the Dictator ever develops an Achilles' heel, most Italians feel that Starace is in a position to pierce it. As Secretary of the Party he holds the key post from which Joseph Stalin in another land succeeded another Dictator. Last week Italian society in general and Fascist bigwigs in particular digested uneasily a Party bulletin in which they were lashed by Achille Starace, steel-nerved, steel-muscled Apotheosis of Action...