Word: ol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, 42, a pitcher who knew no peer (and was the first to admit it) during the rowdy days of the famed St. Louis Cardinal "Gas House Gang" in the '30s. The last pitcher in either league to win 30 games in one season (1934), Ol' Diz also holds the National League strike-out record (17 in one game), wound up his flamboyant career with 150 victories, 83 losses. After his pitching days were cut short by an injury in 1937, Diz turned to sports announcing, enriched the language with such phrases as "slud...
...chief of TIME Inc. Matthews will survey the editorial possibilities of a TIME-in-Britain-a new creation which would grow out of the U.S. newsmagazine formula. Such a TIME-in-Britain, if Matthews' explorations prove fruitful, would be as major an innovation as LIFE EN ESPAÑOL (TIME...
...respect the brave bulls, too. "But what enthralled me most," says frank Sidney Franklin, "was the absolute idolatry in which the crowd held the fighters." Extroverted, extravagant, foolish and flamboyant, Franklin surf boarded through the '20s on this idolatrous wave, bathing himself in a thunderous surf of resounding Ol...
Probable starting lineups: Harvard--Fisher, g; Laimbeer, rfb; Sargent, lfb; Hadik, rhb; Bigelow, chb; Little, lhb; Lingelbach, or; Holmes, ir; Goles, cf; Lloyd H; Truslow, ol; Exeter--Tyson, g; King, rfb; Sargent, lfb; Ballard, rhb; Hodnett, chb; Lamont, rhb; McIntosh, or; Gomez, ir; Martin, cf; Parker, il; Burlingame, ol...
Early Birds. In Bourg-Saint-Andéol, France, Mayor Pierre Tiéri sternly advised local fishermen that theirs was "an agreeable pastime, but you are absolutely forbidden to tear up paving in the streets in order to search for worms...