Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tammany deprived local Republicans of the chance of raising a graft-&-corruption cry against the Democratic nominee for Mayor. Boss Curry had silenced the issue he dreaded most. Most observers thought the deal included the nomination by Boss Koenig of a flabby Republican over whom "Jimmy" Walker could walk back to city hall with the least trouble...
...first big league season than any other National League pitcher, and 22-year-old Vernon ("Goofy") Gomez, tall, lean, left-handed Yankee, who comes from Rodeo, Calif. Chicago got one run in the first, the Yankees two. When his teammates had tied the score in the third, Warneke walked Ruth and let Gehrig single. Then, to fill the bases for a force play, he walked Dickey. It was sound strategy but it did not work. Chapman, next batter, smashed the first pitch for a sharp single to right. scoring two runs. Warneke was steady after that, except...
...School. Preacher Rose makes the 28-mi. round of his three parishes in an old automobile, carrying in winter a shovel to dig his way. He calls regularly on all his 700 parishioners, preaches three times every Sunday. Says he: ''On the side roads, one has to walk in the winter time. . . . West Fairlee is a lovely village...
Creaking and groaning, the play tells the barely credible story of Lilly Turner (Dorothy Hall), a cootch dancer who is married to a weakling carnival porter (James Bell, who made the horrifying death walk in The Last Mile). Miss Turner, although possessing a heart of gold, continues a lurid past by surrendering consistently to the medicine show's strong men. One of these, an idiot, throws her husband down some stairs just as she is about to run away to Atlantic City with another...
...north of Toronto. No sadder birthday has long-nosed Martin Insull had than the one which came last week, his 63rd. He described himself as a "man without a job, without plans, without a future.'' Asked what he did all the time, he replied, "Oh, I take long walks and I read; that is about all. ... I never go to the pictures. ... I just walk and read." He said he had no idea when he would return to Chicago. "I understand it is lovely up here in the fall and I am fairly comfortable. . . . This perhaps...