Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he has a mistaken idea because we in San Francisco had a similar fiesta prior to the opening of the Golden Gate International Exposition. .. . There were more sore faces per San Franciscan than possibly in the whole U. S. and after the fiesta was over, barbers did a land-office business getting faces and hair back into shape again...
...that April forecasts are foolish, last week on the eve of the widely ballyhooed centennial season, they went ahead predicting how the major-league teams would finish in October. Most weighty predictions came from the baseball writers who had just returned from a two-month training-camp survey of sore arms, batting averages and rookies' temperaments...
...since the present ones, being Government-owned, cannot be bought. They will up the admission from $1.10 to a $2.20 top, move the show from Broadway's outskirts to pleasure-seeking 44th Street, opposite a wildly glaring Hot Mikado. For the Hot Mikado's Producer Michael Todd, sore to begin with because the Swing Mikado competed Against him, is now in a towering rage because he pleaded for the chance to take it over, was coldly dished in favor of Marolin...
...condition of the President's arm, unfortunately enough, cannot be taken as assurance that all the other flingers of the nation's pastimes are as well off. For this season in the sport might well be termed the year of the sore-arms, or at least, the year of the question-mark arms. Whether due to the widely discussed influence of the "rabbit" quality in American horsehide, or to the more mundane belief that managers have overworked their pitchers, the fact remains that an inordinate percentage of the country's pitching greats have grievous afflictions in their flippers. Carl Hubbell...
Fred Brown's continued stay in Washington will assure that city's baseball team of one of its steadiest customers. Fred Brown has followed baseball ever since he left Dartmouth in sophomore year (1901) to join the Boston Braves. A sore arm in his second season forced him out of baseball, into law and politics, but never out of the grandstand...