Word: toothpicks
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...Performing for a skimpy crowd of 2,918 ball fans, Big Sam Jones, toothpick-chomping speedball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, turned in the first National League no-hit game that Chicago has seen in 40 years. Walking seven and striking out six (three in the ninth inning), Sam cut down the Pittsburgh Pirates...
...Johnnie Ray went under a surgeon's knife for treatment of an abscess in his right foot. Cause of the infection: in an accident possible only in the 20th century, Ray strolled beside a Las Vegas swimming pool last July and speared himself, olivelike, on a dropped Martini toothpick...
...back in Lolo (pop. 200), Mont., where he was born on Sept. 1, 1900, Bill Allen gave little indication of such single-minded devotion to the job ahead. He is remembered as a tall, stringy "toothpick" youngster. His father, Charles Maurice Allen, was a mining engineer who enjoyed taking Bill and his older brother Edward on long pack trips to live off venison and mountain grouse. At Montana State University Allen barely skinned through. It was not until he went east to Harvard Law School (class of '25) that he decided to work hard for the first time...
...hazard's involved in goal post grappling are considerable from the student's point of view. The avid fan may finally crawl out of the fray tomorrow proudly displaying a toothpick-like object, only to discover that his wallet full of cash, dance tickets, and vital memorabilia has been filched...
...call "a man of adamant." In these pages, King is exposed as a man of obsidian, consciously modeling himself on Jervis. He was flattered when friends said he was so tough that he must shave with a blowtorch, and gave him a four-foot crowbar to use as a toothpick...