Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maggio (July 13, 1936). On July 7, the highly-publicized Di Maggio played with the American League in the annual All-Star game. His record: no hits in five times up; fumbled one ground ball, allowed another to go between his legs. Score: National League 4; American League...
...hours, while farmers profited by selling parking space to onlookers, Dr. Poulter and the crew managed to get Penguin back on the road. Meanwhile, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's third South Pole expedition, all set to sail, impatiently awaited the monster in Boston. The little motorship North Star, loaded with sled dogs and supplies, was due to shove off for Philadelphia, where she was to take aboard airplanes, proceed to a New Year's Day rendezvous in Little America with the expedition's flagship, Bear...
...last, long overdue, Penguin rumbled up to North Star's, Boston dock. There was still one ticklish job left-getting Penguin aboard. Since the monster was too big for its berth, ten feet of its tail had to be amputated with acetylene torches. Then, when the tide lifted the motorship's foredeck level with the dock, the cumbersome creature was rolled aboard on a specially built platform, lashed down...
...week's end, as North Star churned southward, with four feet of Penguin's, bobbed tail still hanging over the rail, Dr. Poulter was pleased with his monster's performance. Whether or not it would negotiate Antarctic ice better than it had U. S. roads, it had pulled in more publicity for an Admiral Byrd expedition than the publicity-wise Admiral himself...
Mendel's sensational goal was his third shot in the last quarter of the game, but the other two had been stopped by Poole, star Eli goalie. The winning tally was a shot that no goalie could have saved, a whistling liner from about ten yards away that slid into a corner...