Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strikes were called on him. The runner on second base hung his head, looked at the scoreboard that showed the University team one run behind. The bat boy was picking up the bats, the pitcher pitched, Catcher Fiedler swung wildly, hit the ball, knocked it out of the lot. "Another Casey," chortled California freshmen...
...memories in his head. His name is Bill Martin. He is a mine caretaker, sometimes a sheepherder, virtually a beggar. When he was young, he says, he prospected for silver and copper with a fellow called Bill Clark, formally named William A. Clark. Together they found metal, a lot of metal. Bill Martin drank up and gambled away his share. But not Bill Clark, who kept his head, went into politics, went to the U. S. Senate, built an extravagant palace full of works of art on Fifth Avenue, way off in New York. Three years ago, Senator Clark died...
...Manhattan last week and chopped the line drives of Julius Seligson into the corners. Each won two sets. In the second game of the fifth set Seligson twisted his ankle, limped, made an ugly face, sat down, got up, went on playing, limping. "Not that will aid a lot" punned the crowd, but critics noted that J. Seligson's game had slumped before his ankle, applauded Aydelotte as he went on to win the fifth set and the U. S. indoor tennis title. This year no Frenchmen were entered...
...Atlanta on the 26th birthday of Robert Tyre Jones Jr., A. Wise Wood last week called Jones a "young knight" for refusing a $50,000 house and lot offered to him by his admirers. When he had stopped talking Mrs. Bobby Jones unveiled a portrait of her husband painted by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne...
...Midsummer-Night's Dream actually put me in a dream in which I saw Oberon, Titania and the fairies. I heard a lot of pizzicat in the Scheherazade. The first and middle part made me think of caramel sauce, thick and gummy!" (aged...