Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a capital hit at "art moderne" in the page headed "Gift Suggestions in the Modern Spirit." There is perhaps a little too much flattery of Fougasse--three pages of small, serial drawings are rather a big dose, even for those who have formed the habit Blackburn's drawings are a good corrective: he wields a broad brush, and his humor is not thin...
...major arguments in favor of the step are two. Many familiar with the sight of a first-class pitcher who has allowed three hits in seven innings being removed from the line-up to allow a strong hitter to toe the plate. Mr. Heydler's plan would allow the pinch-hitter and keep the pitcher in the game. Besides the elimination of this handicap to a team, Mr. Heydler points out that his plan would speed up ball games by doing away with the annoying delays of getting a pitcher ready to hit, and getting him a sweater when...
...pitchers wouldn't like the scheme. Even if they hit only once in six trips to the plate they have a human desire to crack something. They want to get back at the other pitcher for all the hits that have whistled past their ears. Although the proposal does not prevent the pitchers from taking their turns, the chances are that managers would discover some player short on brains and fielding prowess, but able to hit them far and frequently, who would stay on the roster as a hitter and nothing else, to the exclusion of the pitcher from...
...began to chant a song about him. In the railroad yards between New Orleans and Chicago, whites and blacks added verse after verse to Casey's epitaph. Soon there were some 50 verses and many a chorus. Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert converted them into a popular hit. Extracts...
...Chatelet Theatre entrancing "fairy spectacles" called féeriques. Last week, however, this famed theatre-for-tiny-tots was taken over by Actor-Manager Sacha Guitry, who is usually to be found co-starring with his wife, Mile. Yvonne Printemps, in Paris' latest and most urbanely naughty hit. To the Chatelet tripped and strode, last week, Tout Paris to applaud what one critic called "the boyish dignity and so entrancing innocence de notre cher Lindbergh...