Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society will hold its annual spring pep rally tonight. The card will feature an eight man free-for-all bout between four rabid copy-boys for PM and Princeton's 1944 polo team. Vag will referee. High tea and blintzes will be served between rounds and shillelaghs may be checked at the door. No cover, no minimum...
John S. Sumner, mild-mannered successor to the late, rabid Anthony Corn-stock as secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, blew off a bit of steam after reading D. H. Lawrence's The First Lady Chatterley* (TIME, March 27). He discovered "obscene" passages on 92 pages of the book, prodded police to seize the 398 copies in its publisher's stockroom. Said Dial Press Publisher George W. Joel: Not one of "approximately sixty reviews . . . mentioned any obscenity. As a matter of fact, we consider it very tame...
Long before Pearl Harbor, Lausche was interventionist. His election in 1941 was virtually a Cleveland referendum on the war; and he soundly trounced rabid isolationist Congressman Martin Sweeney. Cleveland, under Lausche, has feared no Detroit riots. (His ticket last week included three Negro Councilmen.) As mayor, he has helped settle many a labor dispute, has had labor unions with him from the start. So are local G.O.P. businessmen: his Republican opponent had a hard time getting campaign finances...
...wood for the trees sold down the river. Idolized Camilli, sacked, quit baseball for good. Onetime great hitter Medwick, sold at the waiver price, was blasting base knocks for the rival New York Giants. Heady from two champagne years, Brooklynites were tasting punctured seltzer water. Brooklyn's erstwhile rabid rooters felt that it was Rickey who had left the cap off. They needed more than two hands to catalog his infamies and betrayals. Bleachers were full of "Down with Rickey" signs...
...recent convert to baseball, Four-Striper McClure is now a rabid fan. When Seaman Rizzuto made a home run in a recent game with the Washington Senators, the Certain sprang off the players' bench, rushed out to shake his hand as he crossed the plate. During another game, when fly-chasing Di Maggio backed into a deep gully on the edge of the field, Captain McClure jumped into his private jeep, scooted across the field to see if he was hurt. The Captain is constantly tacking notices on the clubhouse bulletin board. The morning of a game with...