Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world, than does any haphazard roomful of oratory on East 86th Street speak for the German people. No more alarming and dangerous enunciations could have been concocted than those reporting that a 'Super-Government of Judaism' was in process of formation. . . . Nonparticipating are the Zionists . . . and a score of other leading [Jewish] constituencies...
...takes about the same amount of time (two months or more) and money ($25,000 or more) to produce a good revue as it does a bad one. What distinguishes the successes from the failures is the x quantity of taste and talent. On that score the producers of Keep Moving had bad luck.* Beginning with a hopeless burlesque of Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts, the show proceeds through a series of wooden dance numbers, ineptly written skits, patently derivative tunes. Then there are the Singer's Midgets, awkward little people with piping voices and thick Germanic...
...high-school teams. Instead of going to college on a scholarship, he signed a contract to play baseball for Detroit, joined the team last season. But in the record he has compiled since then there was a flaw. He had beaten every team but Washington. The score when the last inning started last week was: Washington 2, Detroit...
...first Detroit batter made a home-run. Pitcher Rowe hugged him, cuffed him happily on the head. When he went to bat himself, two men were on base. His hit scored the winning run. By the time Detroit took the field the score was Detroit 4, Washington 2. Rowe struck out the last two batters, threw his glove in the air, rode off on the shoulders of the crowd...
Another outbreak of bacillary dysentery was reported last week from Northampton, Mass. There, "however, the epidemic is thoroughly localized among the 1,800 infirm and insane inmates of the Northampton State Hospital. Their dysentery score: 7 dead; 93 infected...