Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirkland appeared to have a slight edge in the initial innings, but the Bellboys put on the pressure in a big four-run uprising in the top of the fourth, and were never again headed. Curley poled a tremendous homer to the Stadium wall in that frame with two mates aboard, after cohort Pete Marble had clouted another four-master with the sacks empty...
Ever since Dick Harlow bade a teary farewell at the close of the 1941 season to the best Varsity line Soldiers Fields has seen in recent years--a forward wall which included such rugged characters as Club Peabody Dick Pflster, Loren MacKinney, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller--he's been wistfully seeking its equal. To predict that this year's Beef Trust will be a replica of that famous pre-war predecessor is wishful thinking only for the most partial of Crimson rooters, but a midsummer glance at the situation has enough bright spots to lead to moderately pleasant speculation...
Deadeye. In Maiden, Mass., George Ross, tangled in a conveyor belt, chucked tin cans at a wall switch, hit it, shut off the power, saved his life...
...swore he had bawled George out and written him notes begging him to straighten up, get out of town, get lost in the river. But George was utterly willful, and he was a little cracked too. Witness the note he scribbled in lipstick on Miss Brown's bathroom wall: "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more." He wrote that in Bill's hand, like an expert forger...
...Living Church fervently seconded the minority report in an editorial titled "Not Unity but Surrender." But the hottest blast came in an article by tall, bespectacled Dr. Frederic S. Fleming, rector of Wall Street's rich old landmark, Trinity Church. Cried he: "This is the great betrayal! How much more honest it would be for those who are ready to renounce the Church ... to find their place in the Presbyterian Church without trying to 'scuttle the ship' for those who would re-mam true to their ordination vows...