Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sudden Death. In his diary and letters Stilwell usually refers to Chiang Kai-shek as "Peanut" and Roosevelt as "Old Softie." The crisis in Stilwell's struggles with "Peanut" and "Old Softie" came in September 1944. In nis disgust with Chiang, he wrote to Mrs. Stilwell, "Why can't sudden death for once strike in the proper place?" Two days later he was jubilant. He finally got from Roosevelt what Editor White describes as "the sharpest-worded American demand for reform and action on the part of the Chinese government that the war had evoked...
Stilwell went in person to serve his ultimatum. "I handed this bundle of paprika to the Peanut and then sank back with a sigh. The harpoon hit the little - right in the solar plexus, and went right through him. It was a clean hit, but beyond turning green and losing the power of speech, he did not bat an eye. He just said to me, 'I understand.' And sat in silence, jigging one foot. At least F.D.R.'s eyes have been opened and he has thrown a good hefty punch. I came home. Pretty sight crossing...
...Chiang Kai-shek didn't take it. He insisted that Stilwell be replaced. Stilwell writes, "It looks very much as if they had gotten me at last. The Peanut has gone off his rocker and Roosevelt has apparently let me down completely. If Old Softie gives in on this, as he apparently has, the Peanut will be out of control from now on. . . . God help the next...
...Pirates are authorities on bad luck. Last year the club finished in the cellar. The trouble was more than peanut-eating: there had been too much all-night poker and drinking. Since then Manager Billy Herman had resigned, and several troublemakers were traded. Now the club is under the firm hand of Billy Meyer, who had managed the crack Yankee farm team in Kansas City, where he trained most of the top present-day Yankees...
...their hits squarely at Bing. Crosby, a fair country ballplayer, stopped the ones that wouldn't knock out his front teeth, clowned on the rest of them. He hit fungoes, played around with a catcher's mitt (see cut). Then Bing watched morosely while his peanut-jinxed Pirates lost to the Chicago Cubs, 4-3. A week later the Pirates took on the Cleveland Indians, and 4,200 Californians could see how Cleveland's Bob Feller earns his $87,000 a year. In the five innings Feller pitched, he struck out six Pirates, allowed no hits...