Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Kendrick and the exposition managers need fee-paying and, according to Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent, graft-paying concessionaires. These, in turn, will come only if they may operate on Sundays, the most profitable amusement day of the week...
...world champions, the Pittsburgh Pirates, average 29 years. Commonly supposed to be a young team, the Philadelphia Athletics are in reality far remote from puberty. Babe Adams, 44, is the oldest player in either league and still pitches irregularly for Pittsburgh, but Jack Quinn pitches his regular turn for Philadelphia at the age of 41. The average span of big league life for a ball player is eight years. The youngest good player today is Lindstrom of the New York Giants...
...left the letter there. In a little while a man came in. Idi was short and slight and he stood quite still for a moment, breathing softly in the dim room. When he found that the room was really empty, he looked around with a quick, frightened turn of his head, as if to make sure that he hadn't got into the wrong flat, and in that glance he saw the letter on the varnished table. He read it and went into his room and shut the door. Pretty soon there was a new smell in the flat...
...Ambassador of the United States to Europe-without Portfolio"-a curious title for a joke-smith. The braided butler of the consular drawing-room chants it through his thorax, scorching the sibilants, booming the o's. The company stares at the newcomer. Famous women turn, over ivory shoulders, a glance cool with appraisal; gentlemen in dinner shirts striped with impossible decorations raise their monocles or feel for their small arms while he shambles into the room-"Viva, l'Ambassadeur." He wears an old grey suit. A jazbo necktie adorns, but fails to hide, the golden collar-stud...
...know that? But what editor asked: "Who is Roscoe Platt Conkling? A descendant of 19th Century Manhattan Republican Boss Roscoe Conkling? A namesake of Roscoe's voter-bludgeoning henchman, Thomas C. Platt?" In a jazzed age no news hound delved through the reference "morgue" of his paper to turn up the great story of Conkling, Platt, Garfield and James G. Blaine. But for the tangled interplay of their rapier politics Garfield would never have been President, nor would the name of Blaine awaken potent memories. Yet, instead of recalling to their readers the late and great, many an editor...