Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armistice Day. The score had reached high figures, as in the first game, so the Giants began rotating positions against the Army and Air Force team, which were Far East service champs last year, incidentally, and quite good by service standards. In the final inning, the team included Leo Durocher at short and Freddie Fitzsimmons pitching (no runs were scored). This brought real nostalgia to the older spectators present and a rousing ovation for the two good sports who could easily have gotten conked by a batted ball from the husky Army batters...
...Lady-Killer. Little Leo has no idea what Marian thinks about marrying Lord Trimingham. He only knows that she is his boyish ideal of a goddess and that he worships her beauty almost as much as Lord Trimingham's viscountcy. To fetch and carry for Maid Marian is heaven to Leo-especially when she asks him to carry a secret letter from her to Ted Burgess and rewards him with "an enchanting smile...
...Leo finds Farmer Burgess to be a fine, strapping man, but just a low-class fellow for all that; yet Leo starts asking questions about Ted because any man who has a mysterious bond with Marian is worth investigating. But he gets only short, veiled answers. "Mr. Burgess is a bit of a lad," says the coachman. "He's a bit of a lady-killer, but there's no harm in that," says Lord Trimingham casually...
...Simple Tune. All month long, Leo acts as Ted's and Marian's go-between, carrying the messages which Marian says are business arrangements. Not even Marian's hardboiled, matchmaking mother guesses that the young boy may be the ruin of her snobbish plans. And when one day Leo glimpses a few lines in one of Marian's letters ("Darling, darling, darling, same time, same place, this evening"), and is struck all of a heap by the revelation, it is for a disillusioned schoolboy's reason, not a scandalized adult's. "How could...
...child. He paints a near-perfect picture of country-house life at the turn of the century-its etiquette, its croquet and cricket matches, its exact relation to classes and countries outside its own. He also has a simple tune to play on his symbols-for Leo (the lion) stands for a young England ignorant of the social upheaval that the new century is destined to bring in. with such lawbreakers as Ted and Marian as its forerunners. But not effective forerunners, for Heroine Marian, despite her love and passion for Farmer Ted, is too Victorian to crash the class...