Word: streak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liquid Legs. As silk stockings evaporate from the nation's store counters, cosmeticians are rushing in to challenge rayon. Liquid stockings are on the way. Last week in New York, one salon opened a "Leg-Bar"; showed waterproof, streak-proof, runproof, cosmetic stockings in giant lipstick form (called "leg-sticks"), in spray guns, in cakes, in bottles. Seams are applied with an eyebrow-pencil. To many women the whole thing sounded messy...
...proceedings. For example, when a pinster triumphs and wins free games, "fees," spectators race about in a mystic trance shouting "Pinball," a call as rousing to Bow Street as Rheinhardt is to the Yard. But bewailing bad luck takes up much more space in the pinball dictionary. A streak of poor playing is described as "Gottlieb working overtime" or "Harry having his foot on the pedal." Even baseball contributed two terms: the "Merkle ball" which slides straight down with only one more bumper to light, and the "Owen ball" which the pinster cannot control. A "New man ball...
...outs, clean-up hitter Ned Fitzgibbons waited for two strikes. Finally picking a choice pitch, he clouted the day's most powerful hit, a full-size home run to center, tying up the ball game. Bill Barnes, after an umpire-Cornell coach dispute, gave promise of keeping the streak rolling. Callanan reached first on an error but was caught off the bag in an attempted double steal, ending the threat...
Eliot House's championship eight meets its counterpart, Trumbull College of Yale, at New Haven today as the Crimson representatives seek to prolong the victory streak over the Elis which they started back...
Holding the Crimson to four scattered hits, the Crusaders accumulated 13 bingles off Captain Lou Clay to extend their winning streak over the visitors. Not since 1939, when the Varsity won a 12-inning affair, has the Harvard team beaten Holy Cross in Cambridge and not since 1934 at Worcester...