Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needed with the pitching corps. At present that corps consists mainly of Ingalls; for Southpaw Dick Walsh has failed to live up to expectations, Tittmann is wild, Bilodeau is sequestered at short, and the hard working John Campana may probably never become a starting hurler because of his height, insufficient for that position...
Florenz Ziegfeld did some first-rate glorifying in his long and spectacular career as producer of musical extravaganzas but never did he attain the dizzy height of opulent glorification which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have reached in their three-hour film biography of "The Great Ziegfeld," which is now running at the Colonial Theatre. In comparison with this musical of musicals previous super-productions fade to the class of colossal on a small scale...
...Olympic squad of 14, last week's final entitled Universals to name eight players, Oilers five. One more will be chosen from the rest of the teams in the tournament. In some respects, this arrangement seemed eminently suitable. Due to the premium which the game places upon height and reach, basketball squads are often odd looking. By & large the McPherson Oilers are undoubtedly the oddest basketballers in the country...
...handsome man, grey and bespectacled of average height and solidly built, Dr. Fred dresses with extreme care, in contrast to tall, cadaverous Dr. Albert. The late, great Jane Addams always was houseguest of the Fred Taussigs when she went to St. Louis. Because he is so strict and meticulous in his clinical work, students and younger gynecologists who work with Dr. Fred in clinics consider him old-maidish. Internist Albert is considered to have a larger practice than Gynecologist Fred...
...height of the 1929 investment trust boom people were eager to pay $1 for the privilege of having $1 invested in their behalf by Wall Street banking houses. The extra $1 did not actually go to the investment bankers. But in the open market people scrambled to buy investment trust stocks for a price which was twice the value of the assets behind them. Assumption was that any banker worth the name could, in a trice, make at least 100% on money entrusted to his care. When it was belatedly discovered that banker-managed investment trusts could lose money just...