Word: smitten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, which takes its sports more calmly than most cities, has finally been smitten by basketballitis, a highly contagious disease which has been running up & down the Midwest for ten years. One night last week, a record 11,216 people pushed & shoved into Kiel Auditorium; 3,000 more were turned away. The crowds wanted to see unbeaten St. Louis U. playing Holy Cross, a storybook basketball squad that practiced in an old barn, traveled 40 miles to Boston to play its "home" games, and became 1947's team of the year. Holy Cross had been beaten only once...
Father Peyton attributes his sudden success in radio to a simple faith. Some think his Irish stubbornness helped, too. A big, bulky, bashful man of 38, Father Peyton came to the U.S. 20 years ago from a poverty-ridden County Mayo home, already smitten with "the passion of my life": the power of prayer. "I remember what it did for our Catholic family in Ireland," he recalls, "and how it united the eleven of us completely. I knew it would make happy families the world over...
...Ireland a generation ago would have dared contradict the smitten heart of Poet William Butler Yeats. Like the fabulous bird of Greek myth, the phoenix about whom he wrote in these lines was unique, alone of her species. Born in London, the daughter of an aristocratic Irish officer, tall, stately Maud Gonne (pronounced Gun) was educated in a Paris convent and made her debut in glittering St. Petersburg. She was a daring horsewoman, a thrilling amateur actress, a painter and a gifted linguist. With a Junoesque figure and chestnut hair that fell well below her knees, she was, they said...
Repayment Deferred. In Fredonia, Kans., an ex-schoolmarm sent the county school superintendent a check for $75 (full repayment of the three-month salary she had once drawn) along with a conscience-smitten confession that she had cribbed on her teacher's examination to get the job, 53 years...
These plagues had smitten Pontiac because 500 municipal workers had struck to win a 15? increase for workers paid by the hour, $20 a month for those on salary. The C.I.O.'s State, County and Municipal Workers were willing now to take 10? an hour, but the City Commission insisted that it had no money to pay any increases whatever, and would not go into the red to pay them...