Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance he is a tall, sleek theatrical figure with black hair, a tail coat, and glasses on a broad black ribbon. He is a Roman Catholic...
...younger brother, Paul, two pitchers who can be counted on to win most of their games, all the club seemed to need was one more of the same calibre. Last week it tried to make up that deficiency by purchasing aging Dazzy Vance from the League's tail-enders, the Cincinnati Reds. The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Braves were still in striking position behind the Cardinals. Brooklyn, which last week won its first game after losing eight in a row, and the Philadelphia Phillies, who have good batters but poor pitchers, were almost bracketed together, a notch ahead...
...Yawkey had a rebuilt stadium and an almost completely new roster of players including famed Robert Moses Grove who was Mickey Cochrane's longtime battery mate on the Athletics. Without Cochrane, Grove's pitching has not been up to scratch. Even so the Red Sox, consistent tail-enders in their league for the last nine years, were last week in third place, two games ahead of the hard-hitting Cleveland Indians. Washington was in fifth place. Philadelphia was establishing itself firmly in the lower half along with St. Louis and Chicago...
Near Klagenfurt, Austria. Peter Sussbauer blared his horn at a prim black cat mincing across the road in front of his car. The cat swelled its tail, arched its back, crouched, hissed, sprang from ground to running board, to door, to steering wheel, to Peter Sussbauer. Badly scratched and bitten around the neck, Motorist Sussbauer was hospitalized...
...company. Though some of his books have been best-sellers in Germany, his finespun writing will never appeal to the U. S. masses. But the man-in-the-street, more than half right about the smokescreen, would have missed the coal of truth. This week's company of tail-coated diners were delighted to honor a prominent professional but they also represented a wider audience of deeper views. That audience, which has waded through the lengthy Buddenbrooks and clambered up the perilous slopes of The Magic Mountain, will not hesitate to plunge into the bottomless well of Joseph...