Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very well,' he said curtly. 'I'll get Harry Hopkins...
...signed with the good Irish name McNally, but the spinsters in the border town of Carrickmacross were not to be hoodwinked. Up & down the border they sent the rumor flying: "'tis the British want our cats. They'll eat them, and they're that hard up for a rag to put on their backs, they'll even skin them." From Carrick to Ballyshannon and back to Castleblayney the old maids nodded and locked up their pets. "Men are even stealing cats to sell to the British," said one woman to a TIME correspondent last week...
Isaac had a manager willing to wait. He told Isaac: "Plug, play and practice; I'll talk about you." The first year he got seven concerts, the second 14. Then he was signed by Master Plugger Sol Hurok...
...when she reeked from the cheese they rubbed in her hair, and I gave her $12 for the pin. I let her do it because there's enough snob in me to be proud when my daughter gets into something exclusive. It was wrong and now we'll have...
Nobody paid much mind to Manager Billy Southworth when he sounded off about Spahn in Florida: "He'll win 20; he'll be one of the best." Every manager has a right to talk that way about a prospect in training and, besides, wasn't this guy a lefthander? By this week, Warren Spahn was making other National League managers sit up and take notes on him, and making Southworth look very right indeed...