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...seniority, plaintively warned that "a baby could grow up before a younger man could do the state any good." With a campaign kitty raised by oil and utility companies, he showered the state with pamphlets ("What Elmer Thomas Has Done for Soy Beans") and ads ("Can We Keep Tinker Field if We Lose Senator Elmer Thomas...
...this collection of rustic short stories, Liam O'Flaherty finds himself in the uneventful void of an Ireland at peace, with only the piping curlews, the fragrant bogs, the blue hills and the boneheaded peasantry for his inspiration. Typical is his story of The Challenge. A drunken tinker stands in a Connemara market place after a fair, offering to tear the living heart out of any Connemara gouger who will fight him. A few feet away a young Connemara man offers to crucify any tinker living. The two bawl insults at each other till the Civil Guards arrive, then...
...fielding and the pitching of this team are not far behind its phenomenal batting. "The infield gives its opponents four outs," Lynch said, and improves on the famous Tinker to Evers to Chance infield with their Lynch to Hall to Burke to Burnett combination...
Railroad enthusiasts become highly indignant if you mention the similarity between little boys playing with choo-choos, and men toying with models. They insist their approach is scientific and they point to large organizations in New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles, where successful and prominent citizens gather to tinker with model trains...
...press campaign after another. Perón and Bruce seemed to hit it off well together. Bruce, a millionaire who knew how to run a business, never lost a chance to lecture the President on economics. "Let the Argentine economy alone," he kept repeating. "Don't tinker with...