Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rain turned the red Georgia earth to clay. Manager Walter Johnson, drawn and underweight from influenza, sat on a bench in plain clothes and a raincoat and watched the Giants in the year's first game beat the Newark Bears, 8 to 0. Bill Terry, infielder, knocked a home run the first time at bat. "Gee, I wish I could get out and throw a few" Johnson said, shifting on the bench...
...Murdock, forward of the Ranger's New York hockey club, is one of the fastest, most graceful skaters in professional hockey. He seldom scores. Usually, when he has got past the defense and tried a shot he does not follow the puck like his bald teammate, Ivan ("Ching") Johnson, but skates gracefully back, content that he has made an effort. Last Saturday in Boston young Murdock got angry when Indian-faced Hitchman of Boston, wearing a patch of plaster over each eye, had thrown him against the boards. Three times Murdock went down the ice, scored twice in thirty...
SAFARI-Martin Johnson-Putnams...
...think it's mean of them!' [exclaimed Mrs. Johnson rushing indoors to her husband...
...wizard. Of course, there are the columns of the press and they have done fairly well, but hurried reporters are not able to do justice to this subject. The spirit of the dead Horatio and the spirit of the living Michael clasp hands, regretfully, almost tearfully. Boswell without Johnson, Johnson without Boswell: fate was kind to Mr. Alger, and is kinder to Mr. Meehan; but it left a vulnerable spot, and for both the times are out of joint...