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Word: pitcherful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious blow in this department was the recent loss of left-handed junk-baller Gerry Emmet. Emmet had two or three fine games to his credit last year and might have been the top Crimson pitcher this spring. However, he injured his shoulder playing for the squash team during the winter months, and is now a very shaky prospect at best...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

Obviously this sort of script calls for desperate measures. John D. Hancock, who directed, has taken them, but they are the wrong ones. In his efforts to stir up laughter, he has employed books, scrolls, wineskins, spectacles, a rolling pin, a gavel, quill pens, a pitcher, drinking glasses, an earring, a pogo stick, and a live rabbit, among other things. If the rabbit could have been induced to misbehave on cue, I have no doubt but that this would also have been added to the pleasures of the occasion. The cast performs with commendable energy, which might better have been...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Three Farces | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

...over the nice rug. So I drank some. So now there was less in the glass than there was before, but now I was less steady, so I had to drink some more to keep it from spilling on the rug. So after awhile the glass became a pitcher, and the pitcher became a barrel, and the barrel became a hogshead, until finally I was tied in with a direct pipeline that was connected up to all the gin and tonic in the world. There I was, trying to drink up this whole enormous ocean of gin and tonic...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Mother's Ruin | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

...forwards, Martin will use sophomore Kevin Loughery, who is currently leading the team in scoring with a 16.7 average, and 6 ft., 4 in. George Giersch, a rugged rebounder and a consistent scorer, who, incidentally, doubles as a pitcher on the baseball team...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Varsity to Face Favored Eagles On Away Court | 2/3/1959 | See Source »

Slater (David Niven): "Now hold on a minute, old man. You shouldn't take advantage of this sweet Irish young thing. Her concern with protecting her virginity from your seductive advances is understandable (swallows pitcher of martinis...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: The Moon Is Blue | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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