Word: hitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must accomplish before he could leave Tommy, to strike out for himself. Everything progressed splendidly as he checked up on the Cambridge moral weakness, its religious facilities, and its influences. Even the appointment with the dean, the next to last item on his list, passed off without a hitch. "Now, this father said, as he rose to leave, "I've only got one more thing to do, I've got to go to Wolff...
...Club teams grunted through their Kittenball tournament. Back of the Live Stock building fiddlers squeaked in competition, while young men in knitted shirts pitched championship horseshoes. The Fair offered no greater sight than the team pulling contest. The first time F. F. Martin of Bridgewater tried to hitch his huge draft horses to the pulling machine (a truck rigged backwards) the beasts took fright when the doubletree dropped against their heels, tossed Owner Martin, bolted into the crowd. The next time they struck the earth with their hoofs until it trembled, tugged the truck down the course in short order...
...results of this game make things look pretty hopeful for the game on Soldiers Field this afternoon. The one hitch may come if Lincoln is found to be too tired to pitch. He will be well backed up, however, by Braggiotti and Bilodeau, either of whom may take the mound...
With Witherspoon, outside engagements had been the hitch in the case of several of the stars who, because of reduced salaries and abbreviated seasons at the Met, are giving more & more time to radio and concerts. Tibbett made the point that the two radio dates which he sacrificed last winter would have paid him almost as much as his entire season in opera. Few hours after Johnson took command Rosa Ponselle was ready to cooperate. In June the new manager will sail for Europe to sign more contracts. He was expected to be more lenient than Witherspoon in the matter...
...then tried to force the artist to put the little girl in a petticoat. Mrs. Mary Y. Henderson got it for $100 last week. Old Mrs. Henderson's love of animals again forced her to pay $10,000 for an oil painting of a four-horse brewery hitch by Edmund de Pratere. George Goodacre, local restaurateur, got it for $310 to put in his lunchroom...