Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could tell warming up before a game how he would do. "If you can snap off your curve so it breads like a ball rolling off a table, then you're strong," he says. The great fireballer had long ago ceased to rely solely on his fast one in a clutch. He had taken a salary cut (from last year's $87,000), because he finished 1948 with only 19 victories. "The way the wolves howled, you might think that was bad," he says, defensively, "and they're howling harder this year. The crapehangers love to bury...
...people who had never been secret agents, movie starlets, U.S. Senators, atomic scientists or stock manipulators. Millions of them had never sat on a flagpole, made the headlines in a love-nest raid or lost a $14,000 Russian sable stole; almost as many had yet to sniff cocaine, snap at a waiter in the Stork Club, sue somebody for libel, own a Jaguar 3½-liter convertible, or pour a champagne cocktail over a blonde's shoulder blades...
...plot involves nothing basic that is not foreseeable in the first two reels. The script, however, has one pleasant surprise. Every now & then, Miss Lamour comes out with a roundly turned, neatly delivered snap of U.S. gutter slang which fleetingly suggests what might have been made of this story with more imagination...
...managed to reduce the sneezes to a mere 240 per hour by vigorous adjustment. But Michael had hardly left the chiropractor's office before the sneeze rate soared again. Hypnotist Norman Waters sent Michael into a deep trance and intoned: "You are not going to sneeze. When I snap my fingers you will wake up and tell your mother, 'I have stopped sneezing.' " Waters snapped his fingers and Michael woke with a violent kerchoo...
Until last Tuesday, this looked like the year to snap the losing streak. But at that point Curwen went to Stillman with a high fever, induced by a virus infection. Twenty-four hours later, seven oar Ollie Iselin came down with intestinal troubles, which kept him away from practice...