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Last Saturday, when the Crusaders had Dobens, a southpaw in the box, Sullivan, a left-handed batter, was placed in the lineup to add to the team's strength at bat. He went in for Donaghy at short, while the latter's ability both at the plate and in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO PLAY SOUTHERNERS ON DIAMOND TODAY | 6/7/1927 | See Source »

Walker vs. Tendler. In Philadelphia, a ten-round contest for the welterweight title was decided in favor of Champion Mickey Walker, who refused to give Lew Tendler (lefthanded lightweight) the ghost of a chance. Some said that neither man suffered overmuch from exertion. Tendler left the ring without a mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fights | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

Nancy Ann. The titular character is a young miss who, in spite of growing up with all the advantages of patrician society, does everything lefthanded. Those advantages include a quartet of berating aunts who are constantly trying to jerk her into a state of perfection. Their nagging accounts for Nancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 14, 1924 | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

Everything lefthanded. (P. 16.)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Apr. 14, 1924 | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

The old American backwoods developed men with plenty of red-blooded fighting spirit, but unfortunately furnished them with a fighting code which demanded just one retaliation for every slur on a man's name, home or country, namely, immediate and direct action with ax, gun, or flst. Where each man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HE STOOPS TO CONQUER | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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