Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Darrow let his well-known championship of the underdog and his socialistic tendencies ruin his chance to make a hole in one. He saw it was his opportunity to show that monopoly and big business were reigning supreme. It was too much for the old criminal lawyer and the result was an outburst of vituperation which would make even Mr. Hoover wince. While there is some cause for his claims, the prejudice used in presenting them makes them practically useless...
...after she had been snatched was June Robles, 6, granddaughter of a Tucson cattleman. No ransom was paid, no snatcher caught. From Chicago officials had received a special delivery airmail letter directing them to a spot g-2 mi. from Tucson. They found June Robles lying in a shallow hole, chained by her ankles, covered with tin, burlap and cactus. Beside her lay a jug of water, a loaf of fairly fresh bread and some wilted oranges and vegetables. She was thin, dirty, sunburned, weak but otherwise sound. Her first words: "I want my mama...
Moving Ben Prouty into the second base hole should help out Coach Fred Mitchell with a tough situation. The two previous incumbents. Johnny Fitzpatrick ad Phil Hines were hitting for 100 and .222 respectively. Ware, who will return to his old center field berth was swatting the apple for .286 when Prouty took over...
Governor Rolph's secretary replied that, because of ''so many requests of a similar nature for donations," he could not contribute. Nevertheless, the campaign netted $105, provided Caroline Decker with a typewriter, an ample supply of ribbons and paper.-ED. Egg-Sucking Switz Sirs: Re: One-hole Egg Mystery. The skepticism of your correspondent. Mr. William Tarrant Jr. (April 20 is worthy of a Bertillon! He is correct in believing that the great one-hole egg mystery will undoubtedly "make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats off and scratch their heads," even despite your learned...
Behind Samuel Insull lay 23 idle days of voyaging on the blue waters of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Behind that voyage lay nearly two years of lonely exile when he was hunted like a rat in a hole. Behind that exile lay three years of fear ful struggle to preserve a utilities empire in which thousands and thousands of people had sunk their life savings. Behind that struggle lay nearly 50 years of hard work during which, at first acre by acre and later province by province, Samuel Insull had built that empire. On the Water...