Word: mortalizes
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There is one mortal weakness in the team now. When Godin, pitching his twenty-seventh inning in five days, began to tire in the ninth, Stuffy sent some fellows out to warm up. They were a mixed lot. Barry Turner throws lefthanded; Ralph Hymans and Herbie Neal, right. None of the trio, fresh, could have done better than Godin, tired. If one of them turns out to be a pitcher who can go six innings or more, the whole baseball prospect could quickly become bathed in a soft, rosy light...
...treat it with respect. We must study it well, deeply, and in all details so as to combat it, not with arms and force which are means of ephemeral victory, but by showing the masses-to whom we promise happiness in heaven while Marx promises happiness in mortal life-that long before Marx, St. Paul taught social justice, and that we can and must now put our theories into practice...
...plan for veterans of the two World Wars is now in the lap of a highly nervous Congress. This plan, which would give every veteran $90 a month beginning with his sixty-fifth year, is probably the most ambitious special interest plunge into the federal treasury ever attempted by mortal man. The Budget Bureau, in quivering tones, has reported that Mr. Rankin's boondoggle would cost the country something like $125,000,000,000 by the year...
Actually, the orchestra's fate was in a mortal lap. Next season, the orchestra's 38-year-old First Cellist Howard Mitchell will be wielding the baton instead of the bow. Handsome Howard Mitchell might need some Olympian help at that, however, since there were indications that it might not be forthcoming from some of the usual backers of the orchestra. One ardent Kindler supporter, who chipped in $41,000 for the orchestra last year, had pointedly limited himself to $10 in his first contribution this year...
...Walsh McLean, who died in 1947. Evalyn wore a diamond (the Hope) as big as a tiger's eye, and called men impartially "darlin' boy." At her crowded parties (at the old and new "Friendship"), men had to bring their brains with them; Evalyn delighted in pairing mortal enemies at dinner. Said an old friend, admiringly: "Evalyn had spite...