Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most dramatic game of the series was the second, in which Cub Pitcher Dizzy Dean's famed $185,000 sore arm fooled the Yankees for seven innings with slow balls that flew over the plate like a single file of moths, twisting and curving where the Yankees least expected them. But after they solved the mysteries of the Dean moth balls, the Yankees went on a scoring spree with the result that their veteran Lefty Gomez became the only pitcher ever to be credited with six World Series victories, no defeats...
...When Hellzapoppin (TIME, Oct. 3) opened in Manhattan, all critics agreed that it split their eardrums, few admitted that it split their sides. One of the few was Critic Walter Winchell. Winchell razzed his fellow critics, claimed that seven out of eight had also "laughed & laughed & laughed" but were ashamed to admit it in print next day. In the uproar which followed, three-ring Critic George Jean Nathan (Esquire, Newsweek, Scribner's) backed up Winchell, called Hellzapoppin "funnier than the Pulitzer Prize"; Critic John Anderson (N. Y. Journal & American} refused to budge an inch; wisecrackers in general suggested...
...seven days beginning Friday, October 14. All times are EST. All programs subject to change without notice...
This year, as usual, the tarnished Nickel Plate cannot make the grade. In first seven months it lost $2,003,779, contrasted with its $1,510,936 seven-month profit last year. Hence, last summer it asked the noteholders to wait until 1941, added that it would need almost a 100% affirmative reply for this third extension...
When Sarah was six and lived in Brooklyn, her father was making a lot of money at the race tracks, wore fine brown suits, owned a good house. When Sarah was seven, her life was a nightmare of cheap boarding houses, lost toys, bewildering moves from hotels whose bills could not be met. By the time she was 14, her mother was working and her father sat at home struggling with vague inventions which never turned out right...