Word: pennants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forecast '26, in divulging a confidential interview on the outcome of the deciding World Series game today, declared positively that Washington would capture the pennant encounter 4 to 2. He was, however, reluctant to give this information, because though readily admitting himself to be unexcelled as a football dopester, his experience with baseball has been more casual...
Rosamond Pinchot straddled a bicycle. Her white twill dress deserting her heroic limbs, her short hair a pennant in the Alpine winds, she dashed to the riding school for a rehearsal...
...natural selection) which are advanced to account for it. Looking on the geological record, Evolutionists feel as an historian might who looked upon a series of photographs taken at every city and town between Manhattan and San Francisco; if each of the photographs showed a given automobile, with the pennant bearing the name of each town added as the automobile passed through, the historian would say with assurance that the automobile passed across the continent, although he might have to guess as to why the trip was made and who financed it. Similarly, Evolutionists look upon Evolution as an established...
...homeward bound" pennant 170*ft. long, decked with 13 stars, some of which had perforce been snipped out of pink lingerie, wriggled and writhed in the breezes of New York harbor. Beneath it, no whit discomfited by the exuberant blasts of a steam whistle, there moved toward an uptown dock: Jeweled crabs, fish with eight "hands," fish with transparent panes set into their stomachs, fish with navigation lights, sex-appeal lights, food-luring lights, fish with folding films of luminous bacteria, a devilfish with a beam of 18 ft., parasite fish with suckers on their heads for clinging...
...these flare-ups took place this fall. Just before the close of the National League season two members of the New York Giants were accused of offering a bribe to a member of the Philadelphia nine to "throw" a game which would have automatically given the Giants the pennant of their league. The Philadelphian refused and reported the offered bribe. But the Giants won the pennant nonetheless. Judge Landis expelled the two players after a cursory investigation of the charges against them...