Word: swatting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrill furious ones when they are tagged. The terminology of baseball in Japan is identical with that in the U. S.; it is strange to hear the hordes of rooters, their eyes swimming with suspense, abusing pitchers in their own tongue but calling on the batter to ''swat a homer...
...quote, probably the 57th time, "Tom-Tom Heflin who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope." Senator Heflin is no coward and "fears" no one, unless it be some cowardly assassin, a religious fanatic. Heflin is to be congratulated in having the "Guts" to stand up and swat the "Monster," the enemy of real Americanism. Of course our yellow, lying, subsidized sheets and journalistic prostitutes will jibe and howl when Heflin makes a speech. We need several more like him in our U. S. Senate...
...able-bodied Irish matrons, Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Callahan, hurl garbled Hibernian-English at each other over a backyard fence. They grab at each other's hair, throw pots and pans. They swat their children, who make love in cow-like fashion and threaten to entangle the two families in matrimonial alliances. In the end, of course, the children do get married...
Babe Comes Home. George Herman Ruth, variously known as the Home Run King, the Biffing Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, the Mogul of Mayhem, etc., does poorly in a film recounting the life story of a baseball player. Mr. Ruth is not even qualified to hold a cinema actor's lipstick...
Casey at the Bat (Wallace Beery). As the original Sultan of Swat, Wallace Beery struts what was once the Great White Way, flirts with the girls of the Florodora Sextette, misbehaves toward his sweetheart Camille (Zazu Pitts) in a sporty buggy, thus forcing her to trudge a dusty homeward path; in short, does all the inept things possible for a lionized lump. The moot point is, why did he strike out with the bases full? The breath of scandal is finally deodorized by Luck and Love. The home-run king reigns on in left-handed magnificence...