Word: ty
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same treatment as the recent baseball crisis. They received the same attention from the street corner loafer, the same insane comments from people who never went to Harvard or Princeton, or any other college, whose interest in them, as it is in Charlie Chaplin, or Ban Johnson or Ty Cobb, is aroused by the unhealthy appetite for scandal and more scandal...
...flower and the soil. Chaplin's films are, the really important thing about him, but they are barred because he is suspected of not being fit to teach Sunday School. Also symptomatic of the same disease working in a contrary direction is the public refusal to discriminate between Ty Cobb's batting average and his personal honesty...
...That is one wing of the city machine. The other consists . . . partly of such of the ostensible respectable elements of the communi- ty as are willing (in Pittsburgh, for example) to shut their eyes and make common cause with gangsters, vote thieves, dive keepers, criminals and harlots, because of the social and financial eminence of the Mellon name...
Another neighbor grunted, scowled. "So would a framed picture of Buffalo Bill. Glass, though lightning can smash it, don't conduct el'ctric'ty...
Hornsby, as everyone knows, was champion batter of the National League for 1920-21-22-23-24-25. Rousch (Cincinnati) onetime leader of the National League is now batting a mild .324. Ty Cobb (Detroit), Tris Speaker (Cleveland) and George Sisler (St. Louis) are three onetime American League champions of whom much is always expected. Sisler and Speaker are having bad years (.317 and .291 respectively) and twelve-time Champion Cobb (with .329) is doing none too well...