Word: towns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General interest this year (distinct from local interest in home-town teams) centres in efforts to crush the dominance of the New York Yankees (American League), undefeated in the last two World Series. At last opponents see a ray of hope. Small, shrewd Miller Huggins, the Yankee manager, has been forced to replace an important cog in his almost-perfect machine. The agile legs of Joe Dugan, third baseman, gave way. Huggins has moved Mark Koenig, shortstop, to that position...
Every summer the little town of Bisley, Surrey, has its day in the news when hawk-eyed, steady-handed sharpshooters assemble from all over the world to shoot for the King's prize. The famed ranges of the National Rifle Association are at Bisley, and Bisley is to shooting what St. Andrews is to golf...
General Escobar chose Jiminez, the flat sandy town that has been his headquarters for the past three weeks, on receiving word from rebel generals in the north that the morale of all their troops would suffer unless a show of force was made...
...afternoon the federal left wing reached the town. Street fighting commenced. The railway station, which had become a veritable fortress with sandbags and machine guns, was captured. At the height of the battle federal cavalry was sent to cut the railway north of Jiminez and prevent the rebels escaping. A lucky shot by a federal bombing plane exploded an ammunition train behind the town. The rebels, believing themselves surrounded, fled. Jiminez was captured...
...they were regarded with less hostility but with almost as much curiosity. "American Millionaires in Kingsway," headlined the London Standard, "Sir Hugo Meets the United States Giants," cried the London Evening News. Much has Britain lately worried concerning the U. S. Money; now Yankee Doodle had certainly come to town...