Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Leaguers had the bases loaded-and only one man was out. Two runs would tie the score. But the Iowa farm boy, playing in his first All-Star game, ambled out to the mound as nonchalantly as if he were going to feed the chickens, took a quick look at the 63,000 faces staring at him from the packed stands in Yankee Stadium, took a quick look at the bases and then wound up-without even a nervous hitch at his trousers. The ball was a low, fast one and Pirate Arky Vaughan smacked it-right into...
Sport-loving are the Kings of Iraq. Ghazi I (killed last April in a motor crash) was a passionate follower of the horses. Last week his four-year-old son, King Feisal II, took up the ancient & honorable game of golf...
...last year, Radio is a blue-chip big business. But it has one great obstacle to its future: so long as all station licenses come up for review before the Federal Communications Commission every year, no radio station can guarantee its existence for any longer period. Since FCC took up its cudgel in 1934, it has conked no heads to speak of, and last week Steve Early turned up in Atlantic City, reiterated the "unofficial" reassurances of his White House chief that that big stick is just a lath. Unfortunately, at the moment the big stick was very much...
...Contini-Bonacossa, and for a period, the late Lord Duveen. A merchant who cultivated his mind while he was accumulating his chain of 240 stores, Mr. Kress did not need much help. It was about 25 years ago that he first started making large-scale purchases. Every summer he took time off to visit European spas and ferret the art centres. Always he came back with some important token, which he personally hung on the already crowded walls of his rambling duplex penthouse on upper Fifth Avenue. Unmarried, he called his pictures his "children...
...Pitchfork Smith worshipped at the shrine of one man and one man only: William Cowper Brann (the Iconoclast). Once, on Brann's birthday, his disciple got drunk, visited his grave at Waco, and sat there all night communing with the soul of his friend, for every drink he took himself pouring an equal amount of whiskey...