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Died. Louise Homer, 76, onetime (1898-1932) contralto in the Metropolitan's Golden Era of Caruso, Melba, Farrar, Scotti, Tetrazzini; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Daughter of a Pennsylvania minister, she launched her career at 14 by singing Ruth in a church production of Ruth and Naomi (when the lad assigned the basso-profundo role of Boaz failed to show up, Louise sang that role, too). Dependable and even-tempered in an atmosphere that earned "prima donna" its popular meaning, Presbyterian-born Mrs. Homer once balked at a role: in Faust the Met wanted...
Harcourt Wood went all the way for Winthrop, yielding two runs in the fifth inning and one in the eight. Dunster's relief hurler, George Okamura, nearly succeeded in salvaging his cause with a two-run homer in the fifth, but the puritans' early lead proved sufficient for their victory...
...Valera:"...! deny absolutely that I used the word. ... I used a couple of words from Homer which mean 'the resounding...
Next day the Government organ, The Irish Press, learnedly explained: "The Greek words used by Mr. de Valera were poluphloisboio thalasses. They mean 'of the loud, resounding sea,' and are from Homer's Iliad, Book One, line...
...iffy New York Giants clouted six in one game against the Dodgers. The Reds' Eddie Miller, a fine shortstop but not much of a hitter, busted four in six days. The Boston Red Sox' third-baseman, Eddie Pellagrini, was ordered to bunt and socked a homer over the fence. Said he, after trotting shamefaced around the bases: "I'm sorry ... I just don't know my own strength...