Word: marooning
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...broadcast. Be sure that you help me now. Obey the voice of God in you for giving me as much as you can, and God will give back, and if you send in $5 or more, request the beautiful nativity Bible. Oh-it is such a beautiful Bible, with maroon binding. 1.152 pages...
...Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. Shirt-sleeved rooters packed the grandstand at $1 a head. Some stripped to undershirts in the 80-degree heat; some parked their cars at the far side of the broad, green playing field, unfolded beach chairs and guzzled beer from jugs. The maroon-jerseyed home team drew loud cheers when it scored, derisive jeers when it flubbed...
...soon as I get a day off, I'm going to a department store. I haven't dared go near one in years." But the anonymity is not likely to last. After a difficult day, Gleason issued from his penthouse at the George V looking, in spotless maroon jacket and pink shirt, like an Alp covered with wild flowers. He proceeded to the Olympia Music Hall, where his jazzbo buddies Pee Wee Russell and Buck Clayton were playing. Clayton dragged him onstage, and Gleason, whose French is limited to "encore doo van," got howls with a Gallic doubletalk...
...degree weather was a major factor yesterday as Springfield outslugged the Crimson baseball team 10 to 6 at Soldiers Field. The Crimson outhit their opponents 15 to 12, but 10 walks made the Maroon's task an easy...
Moran forces his salesmen to wear maroon jackets, and some have quit rather than do so (chuckles Moran: ''They'd give anything to get out of those red jackets'') He usually fires any salesman who cannot consistently make $250 a week in commissions, but just being around Moran seems to endow most of them with a profitable touch of blarney...