Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep Cut. In Columbus, Ohio, when a married couple disagreed over the correct way to cut cards, they asked a bridge expert's advice; when they consulted a lawyer about the expert's bill for $25, they got another bill...
Threading its way through Washington's crawling traffic, a black Buick convertible with red leather seats glided along the capital's stately avenues and slummy byways. Its driver, a man with a kindly but slightly worried expression, was as inconspicuous as his car was flashy. He looked like any slightly battered citizen going about his slightly battered business. And so he was. Columnist Drew Pearson was on the prowl for news...
...This brought Pearson his closest brush with physical violence. In the House restaurant, Texas' Congressman Nat Patton (no kin to the general) beerily waved a knife under Pearson's nose until Maury Maverick interceded and eased Pearson out of harm's way...
Forkballs & Sliders. Dr. Hyland, a frustrated ballplayer himself, resents any suggestion that the present-day frequency of "elbow chips" and bone growths means that players are less durable than of old. Says Doc, who often talks the way sport-writers write: "Today's crop is obviously better educated and, if anything, up to a faster type of baseball. The culprit in the injury woodpile is the development of trick pitching...
...Twilight. At this point, when he had gathered much of his material and learned life in the wilderness and among the Indians at first hand, his health gave way. He overtaxed his heart, his eyesight failed, and he became too crippled with arthritis to sit on a horse. He wrote a novel-the sort of book, said Van Wyck Brooks, read only by friends of the author -and The Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac, but the great epic of exploration and conquest that he visualized was not even begun...