Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Park had gone to a swank prep school and Yale, from which he graduated by a judicious choice of snap courses; had started as a runner in Wall Street, been taken into the firm by his father when he showed signs of getting married. Park's father tried to act like an English squire by smelling of tweeds, eau de cologne and tobacco, and by tracking birds across the Long Island marshes, accompanied by his docile wife and an unsatisfactory setter. His generation was bothered by taxes, the New Deal, and the encroachment of the big city...
...19th hole, to a Tulsan named Ted Gwin. For a comparative beginner, Vines was in good company. Put out in the same round were Goodman, Chapman, Yates, Argentine Open Champion Mario Gonzales and nearly every other name player except Bud Ward and Ray Billows (twice runner...
Yelped the press: "Roosevelt is a trail blazer of criminal unscrupulousness . . . Aggressor No. 1 . . . a marathon runner in his pursuit of war. . . . Roosevelt thus further proves that the provocatory assault on little Iceland was only a beginning...
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the fiery Georgia Peach whom the Detroit Tigers bought for $750 in 1905, was a daredevil base-runner, a shoestring-catching outfielder, a dazzling hitter. He could go from first to third on an infield out. On one afternoon, in six times at bat, he hit two singles, a double and three home runs. When he finally hung up his spikes, he had a lifetime batting average of .367, had broken innumerable different baseball records...
Major credit for the work so far done goes to quiet, wiry little Floyd Wesley Reeves, director of labor supply and training under Sidney Hillman. Born on a South Dakota ranch, a crack distance runner in high school and college, he is now technically a professor of educational administration at University of Chicago. He went to Washington on leave as chairman of the President's Advisory Committee on Education in 1936, has been there ever since...