Word: leaguers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even-tempered prose, the writer may find he has only reproduced Marquand's low emotional pulsebeat. In this 1957 Harper Prize Novel, Author Frank Norris* does not quite get out of this Marquandary. His hero, George Hanes, is cut to the Marquand measure; he is an Ivy Leaguer (Princeton '01), a professional man (architect), unhappily married, and an ineffectual struggler against the leg irons of convention. But he is also a man of such insufferable nobility as to invite repeated kicks in the pants...
...peace to boot," "the weight-lifting act" for his line that "every man can hold up Dwight Eisenhower to his children as a man who has faith in God, faith in America and who has restored dignity and respect to the highest office in the land," and "the bush-leaguer" for his assertion that "Adlai Stevenson just isn't in the same league with President Eisenhower...
...politician, lean Ivy Leaguer (Harvard '23) Joe Clark is equally at home tossing off a bourbon and water with the boys in the back room, talking earnestly and persuasively to small groups of do-gooders, or delivering the sort of spread-eagle oratory that Clark himself sometimes calls "ranting and roaring." His most effective issue so far has been Jim Duff's Senate absenteeism. Pointing to an empty chair on the speaker's platform, Clark cries: "That's where the junior Senator from Pennsylvania is supposed to be sitting, but he is almost never there...
Gregory does his academic best to analyze the major-leaguer, to understand him both "as an artist and as a business asset." The measure of Professor Gregory's success is that his hero remains a baseball player, a big man playing a boy's game, an economic pawn hemmed in by a code of law that is "like an old lady's will amended by a maze of codicils...
...play in the old Northern League. Roberts balked often out of sheer awkwardness, fell down fielding bunts, was so eager he threw before he got the catcher's sign. But Fisher saw things worth working on-a tireless arm, an indomitable will to win. An ex-major-leaguer (with the New York Yankees and Cincinnati), Fisher put the finishing touches...