Word: tippings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team instead of in grouchy solitude, and the Red Sox all but sewed up the American League pennant in the first six weeks. When he ignored the jeers of the fans, they gradually turned to cheers. But he still had enough of his prewar aloofness not to tip his hat to the customers, sometimes hung around the locker-room for three hours after the game to avoid hero-worshippers. Williams had only one trouble: he seemed to get musclebound against the second-place New York Yankees. He had yet to make a hit this year in Yankee Stadium...
...friends among the 263 competitors who stayed in cheaper hotels down the road, but everybody admired his arrogant showmanship. He had done more than any other man to raise the low social position of the English golf pro, who is expected to tip his hat to club members and cannot eat in club dining rooms. Cotton customarily strides into St. Andrews by the front door, tips his hat to nobody. Lessons from him, at London's Mid-Surrey Club and at Monte Carlo on the French Riviera, cost a de luxe two guineas an hour. The great Cotton wanted...
...After that I think he was gone for almost 48 hours. When he got back, he looked exhausted. But he said his tip had broken the case, all right, and that he'd helped capture the murderers in their homes right here in Astoria, and that he'd have to appear against them...
...Please Shut Up!" The off-hour activities were almost as arduous as the business sessions. Bellboys rushed velvet, satin or brocade evening gowns to & from the cleaners (average tip: 10?); elevator operators coped with breathless indecision. There was a barn dance and a moonlight boat ride to Waukegan...
Hearst newspapers know that the way to get the best pickings of crashes, crimes and calamities is to get there first. A year ago, Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner decided to draft every Angeleno as a news tipster. For the best "outside" news tip sent in each week, the Examiner offered...