Word: spoil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rain decided to take a hand in the race for the League championship. Just after the covers had been taken off the field a thunder storm turned Soldiers Field into a juicy marsh, and in the interests of economy it was decided to spare the field and spoil the pennant...
...Yale, if the Varsity is booming then at the end of its battle with the Hanoverites, some one of those Elis is just as likely as not to spoil a perfectly good ball game by knocking out a home run in the last of the ninth with the bases loaded. People are always doing ridiculous things like that in Yale games. Rising to the crisis, you know. Then there's the additional problem of an acute pitcher's shortage. Loughlin will take care of one of the encounters and maybe pitch the next day also, up here in Cambridge...
...field and off, Maranville hoped also to play until he had grandchildren old enough to watch him. When he was traded out of the big leagues in 1927, he stopped drinking, promptly came up again in 1928. He declined the job of managing the Boston Braves, lest it spoil his hitting. Said Maranville last week: ''I'm probably lucky I did not break my neck. . . . Look for me in the Braves' lineup by August...
...graduating in 1892, serving with the Marines in the Spanish War, in Panama, Santo Domingo, and China. He was a strict disciplinarian, a hard worker, an able officer. He did not, however, get to France during the World War. For a time that omission looked as if it might spoil his chances of gaining the post that is every Marine officer's ambition, Commandant of the Corps. And last November when Major General John Henry Russell celebrated his 61st birthday the chance became slimmer, for compulsory retirement looms for officers at 64. As of March 1. however, compulsory retirement...
...Have college men a sense of humor? Sometimes it's too keen. Their reaction to humor is not disciplined enough. They come to a show to have a good time and spoil the amusement by being too exuberant and laughing in advance of the joke...