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Word: joshing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play in every game. Satchel once pitched a no-hitter in Pittsburgh, drove all night to Chicago, shut out another team in twelve innings next day. Pitching for the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1942 Negro World Series, Showoff Satchel purposely passed a man to get Catcher Josh Gibson (Negro baseball's Babe Ruth) at bat, then forced him to send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Satchel the Great | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Besides Scholle, the championship beat held Ronnie Dick at 7; Tom Willsin 6; John Ross 5; Roger English 4; Pete Stauford 3; Henry Gardiner 2; Khaigu Smith bow; and Josh Twilbey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Crew Takes House Crown by Five-Foot Margin | 5/12/1948 | See Source »

...Logan last August, after deciding that he didn't like his own stage version. For three months they hacked away at it together. Says Logan: "Nothing could stop it. It got up on its two feet and walked by itself." More accurately, 6 ft.-1 in., 200-lb. Josh Logan shoved the play into shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Since the war (in which he served as an Air Forces intelligence captain), he has directed three more-Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday and John Loves Mary-all still running (next chore: directing Rodgers & Hammerstein's Tales of the South Pacific"). Josh deprecates his chain-explosion of successes: "It's hard to break in, but the moment you've had a success everybody wants you. There just aren't enough directors to go around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Productions, a committee of undergraduates engaged in promoting theatrical productions and celebrity appearances, announced yesterday that it will feature Josh White, "America's favorite ballad-singer," in a concert to be held at the Rindge Tech Auditorium Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LSG Productions To Present Josh White on Friday | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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