Word: miller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1925, Yankee Everett Scott was just finishing his world's record of 1,307 consecutive games played in major league baseball, while the slow-witted, ham-fisted young recruit sat on the Yankee bench. On June 1, 26 days after Scott had finished his run, Manager Miller Huggins sent the recruit into a game to pinch-hit against Washington. He failed. Next day, for no good reason, Huggins put the big boy at first base. That day he got three hits, won the game...
...court fortnight ago on the grounds that the prisoners had not retained them. So high ran mob feeling against the lawyers that it took a troop of guardsmen to get them out of Alabama alive. The International Labor Defense last week made public a telegram sent to Governor Miller, holding Judge Henry B. Foster and Sheriff Shamblin directly responsible for the lynching, said they could prove that the mob had been incited by officials...
...ride his two Arabian thoroughbreds. Ungovernably hospitable, he loved to have his friends play on his night-lighted tennis court, to take them riding in his Bellanca monoplane (formerly belonging to Actress Ann Harding), to take them to Eureka to see his 101 Ranch show (bought from Zack Miller a few months ago), to find them jobs when they were out of work. All Emporia's colored people swore by him for his generosity. He drove a flock of cars headed by a Fierce-Arrow. When his little girl had pneumonia, he sent for an oxygen tent...
...bits of first-class writing. Dr. Stevens' assistant Glenda (Glenda Farrell), an energetic girl with a warm heart and a sharp tongue, is an expertly invented character. So is the most consistent visitor at Dr. Stevens' clinic for children, a proudly despondent young Hebrew named Sanford (Sidney Miller) who refuses to be cheered by Dr. Stevens' pills and remedies. When she calls "Good night, he smiles and says: "What's good about it? All the benks are going to close." Another Language (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This vigorous if slightly over-acid adaptation of Rose Franken...
...three course records in three days; at Kingussie (64), Pitpochry (65), Inverness (64). ¶ Mrs. Dodge Sloane's Caesar's Ghost, shrewdly ridden by Jockey Dominick Bellizzi: the Saratoga Handicap in which Equipoise, favorite despite being assigned a weight impost of 142 lb., was scratched. ¶ William Miller, famed sculler of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club: his fourth U. S. singles championship in a row (a record); by one length over his clubmate, Al Vogt, in the challenge round of the National Association of Oarsmen's regatta; at Chicago...