Word: slinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backward by Hollywood at its age of innocence, 20th Century-Fox studios appropriated $2,000,000, took more than three months for shooting, built 80 sets (average for a feature is 40), replaced the 1913 custard pie with a new-style, squshier, stickier, whipped-cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics...
Harvard's baseball fortunes geared yesterday afternoon as the League leading Dartmouth Indians were held to a split in a double hender with the lowly Princeton Tigers. The Big Green, behind Jimmy Heston, won the first one 15 to 2, but Indian slinger Johnny Lendo was charged with a 6 to 4 defeat in the nightcap...
...Crimson placed men in seven events, including Dick Hayes in both hurdles and Johnny Dean in the shotput as well as the discus. The most impressive Harvard showing was the placing of Healey, Millard and Dean in order behind Slinger Dunn, Stanford's discus specialist...