Word: howard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First Game. People who had figured that 35-year-old Spitballer Howard Ehmke would work in the series only if every other Philadelphia pitcher was sick or knocked out of the box, did not reckon on an odd understanding between Ehmke and Manager Connie Mack. Before the regular season ended Manager Mack sent Ehmke to scout the Cubs. He told a friend in confidence that though Ehmke had needed relief in each of the only two games he won for the Athletics this year, he would let him start if Ehmke said he wanted to. "He has one good...
...Lynn, Mass., Joseph Murphy, 7, pretended to be the son of William Tell, placed-an apple on his head. His friend Alfred Howard, 8, William Tell with an air rifle, shot Joseph in the chin...
...Chief Justice William Howard Taft in the Cosmopolitan for November...
...laughed oftener and harder (not louder) than Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the British Ambassador, at The Midde March, salty Shubert-Belasco comedy about British tars and such...
...occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, a year or so ago, "The Yale Daily News" issued a special number in which eminent graduates of Yale were invited to express their views respecting the higher education of today. Among them, very naturally, was the Hon. William Howard Taft, who responded to the invitation with a critical piece that set a thousand tongues aquiver. In an interview with Frazier Hunt in the current "Cosmopolitan" the Chief Justice returns to his theme. "The emphasis in college life is wrong", he insists. And he proceeds to expatiate on the submergence of scholarship in extra-curricula...