Word: shillelagh
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...sons of old Erin have taken over the Yardling infield in grand style. Aside from being wicked wielders of the oak shillelagh, first basemen Jack Casey, keystone sacker Vince Leahy, shortstop Jim Gallagher, and hot corner guardian Johnny Kilpatrick have given the Freshman squad some of the fanciest exhibitions of fielding finesse that have graced the enclosed arena in many a campaign. The outfield has had little but batting practice...
...floor, acting out some far-fetched pun.* Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing the following: "As Coke would have said, id est quod cursum equorum facit."† As a radical, Frank is not so uncompromising as shillelagh-artists like Corcoran, Old-Testament purists like Cohen, bouncers like Henderson. Least hardboiled, most likable of the New Dealers, he is nevertheless the most daring and original theorist among them...
...weather, the statement might well have been the prognostication of a political commentator for that afternoon at No. 10 Downing Street British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera had put their signatures to a far-reaching accord and buried the bloody shillelagh which for seven centuries the two nations have been hurling back & forth across the rough Irish...
Mike Tighe waited until the Steel Code came up for renewal last week to carry his strike shillelagh to Washington. Then, if ever, seemed the strategic time to rivet the closed shop upon the industry. Into no code so far has gone a closed shop provision and President Roosevelt did not propose to begin with Steel. In renewing the code, however, the President made a solemn promise: "I will undertake promptly to provide, as the occasion may demand, for the election by employes in each industrial unit of representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of collective bargaining...
...swinging a "shillelagh...