Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article: "that Harvard men suffer from a painful tradition that they must appear to be indifferent when they are not," he has as usual fallen far short of success. But once again he has been moderately successful in being amusing. That the Crimson has taken Mr. Roberts' penny shocker seriously only adds to the entertainment of the general public. Cornell Daily...
...world series of 1915 he pitched for Philadelphia. This year, cast adrift by Chicago for his roistering ways, he has brought the gospel of Ponce de Leon to St. Louis. He grew stronger as the afternoon wore on. In the third inning his teammates began to hit Shocker, the Yankee pitcher. Score: St. Louis, 6; New York...
...credit. It is, of course, unfair to gauge pitchers on a Won-Lost basis, for consistently winning pitchers are not necessarily the best pitchers, since they may fortunately be hurling for a heavy-hitting team whereas an excellent pitcher may lack support from his inferior team. However, Pennock and Shocker (also of the Yankees), and Rhem and Meadows (Pittsburgh) have demonstrated sterling capabilities. The famed and aged Walter Johnson of Washington has skidded woefully, as has once great Dazzy Vance of Brooklyn...
Sensitive Jüngling had chronic attacks of gooseflesh. At a certain beer garden in Berlin, a fat, elderly man was seen to order a stein of beer and forget it in the excitment of reading the evening shocker...
...German hospital, is mistaken for a German and becomes a leader of post-war German thought, only to be discovered in the end by a former friend and brought back to France and his original identity−sounds somewhat like the skeleton for an ephillipsop-penheim spine-shocker. But again, as in Suzanne and the Pacific, the style is the book−as sparkling, unique and gracile as Venetian glass. The translation by Louise Collier Willcox is fairly adequate though sometimes erratic. SINBAD−C. Kay Scott-Seltzer ($2.00). Greenwich Village−studio-parties− pseudo-intellectuals whose amatory affairs...