Word: luke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet now in the church. Must be the prayer. What was it his grandfather used to read one December night a year? "And it came to pass that in those days there went forth . . ." Funny to remember that when he hadn't picked up a Bible in ten years. Luke II, wasn...
...laughed now. You idiots, he said to the windows full of cheap neckties. You silly bastards, he said to the bookstalls and the camera shops. You couldn't hear tonight, could you? You never hear St. Luke, do you? You can have your Xmas. I'll settle for Christmas...
Waldman devotes other portions of his back to such men as Luke Appling, Gene Bearden, Alvin Dark, Bob (Mr. Team) Elliott, Jim Hegan, Tommy Henrich, Ben Hogan, Johnny Mize, Jackie Robinson, Johnny Sain, Vern Stephens, Doak Walker, and four-fifths of the 1948 Kentucky basketball team--Barker, Beard, Grozs, and Jones...
...fine, for Antwerp rattled with commerce and bulged with gold; and its beefy, bearded burghers all wanted portraits of themselves and their wives. But the aristocratic little portraitist was far from satisfied with his own work. At 19 he got admittance to the artists' Guild of Saint Luke, and at 20 went back to school, at Rubens' feet...
...years ago, on "Appling Day" in Chicago, his fellow players gave him a watch inscribed: "To Old Aches & Pains-from the Boys." Luke spends an hour or so on the rubbing table before every game. He had no injuries and few complaints in 1942 and his batting average that year skidded to a feeble .262. Next year his aches & pains, real and imaginary, were up to standard and his average soared to .328. Trying to explain his hypochondria, Luke says: "You get a little thing here & there, up & down, something that don't look so bad at first...