Word: ol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sign for no $10,000!" barked pompous Dizzy Dean last spring, scoffing at a 50% cut in the salary he had been getting from the Chicago Cubs the past two years. A few weeks later, after his baying had successfully reminded every baseball fan that "Ol' Dizz"; was still in the game, Loudspeaker Dean characteristically signed his contract. Last week, proving as useful to the Cubs as a wet firecracker, the celebrated fireball who had been purchased two years ago for $185,-ooo cash (and three able-bodied players) was bunted back to the minors, his arm crippled...
WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt threw out the first ball today to open the 1940 Major League baseball season, but Ol' Mose Grove threw the ones that counted and the Boston Red Sox blanked the Washington Senators, 1-0, before...
...side), two-peso fans whistled and yelled, tossed their hats into the ring. Conchita had done it again-with as much skill and grace as the three top-flight matadors who had preceded her on the program, the last big corrida of the bullfighting season. While the stands roared "Olé, Olé!", Conchita received a gold cup for the best performance...
...time, Grand Ol' Opry has coaxed out of the hills a great album of musty, hand-me-down folk songs. Some are fiddly old dances, like Tennessee Waggoner, Rabbit in the Pea Patch, Cross-Eyed Butcher, Give the Fiddler a Dram, Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County. Others, plaintive and plunky like Maple on the Hill, Brown's Ferry Blues, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, have gone on to wide juke-box favor. One recent find was a fine old Fundamentalist allegory called The Great Speckled Bird, probably inspired by Jeremiah...
Last Saturday the Grand Ol' Opry turnout was swelled by a delegation from up around Tellico Plains, in the Great Smokies, on hand to hear a straight-limbed, sixth-generation mountain girl sing a song her grandpappy taught her. The girl was 23-year-old Edith Haas Padgett, famed far & wide in the hills for once having bagged a charging 400-lb. wild boar with a single rifle shot...