Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between the same clubs are remembered and the chances of duplication discussed. Will Comba and Pennock be able to play, and will Yankee slugging break through Cardinal pitching? Such are the questions that will animate barber shop debate, for the next few days and cause thousands of fans to storm the gates, ruin their hats and larynxes and regain their youth in a grand orgy of sport mania...
Nominee Robinson, leaving storm-whipped Florida, campaigned through Georgia and Kentucky. Excerpts...
...weight against the trembling sailboat rammed her against the army base pier which slices into the harbor like a knife. By the time the tugs pulled the heavy steamship away, the yacht which she had rammed was a tangle of wreckage which the waves pawed through a night of storm...
...pilots, a few weeks ago, and now is in action daily flying to and from the Boston Airport. The trip east was executed with no trouble, and without accident, the only delay being a day's stop at Schenectady caused by the wind drifts resulting from the Atlantic seacoast storm...
...side. The wall-safe gapes open−gone the twin heirloom emeralds, gone the royal Russian ruby. A slip of a girl cowers by the curtain, hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their midst. "Forged!" he leers again, as the sergeant unearths a wallet stuffed with...