Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begins about 11 a.m. Sometimes he drives direct to the park; other times, his baby-blue Cadillac pulls up first before the swank Hotel Sarasota Terrace, where most of the Sox live. Studiously ignoring the murmurs of the fans which his arrival generally creates, Ted uncoils from behind the wheel and strides head down into the lobby. In natty slacks and sport shirt, but without a hat or tie,* he may pause a moment to chat with the girl behind the cigar counter and to pick up a copy of Sports Afield or else his new favorite paper, the Wall...
Died. Ralph E. Church, 66, longtime (seven terms) Republican Congressman from Illinois, conscientious respondent to House roll calls, who in 1937 forced the House to hold its only Thanksgiving Day meeting (20 minutes) by objecting to adjournment, and once, two years later, attended a session in a wheel chair; of a heart attack while testifying before the House Committee on Executive Expenditures; in Washington...
...fashioned railroad station except for a balcony around three sides and a built-in organ. There were large exhibits featuring New England buildings and grounds of different epochs ranged along the walls. An entire grist mill had been imported from somewhere in Connecticut: it had a turning water wheel and a rustic sign which read "Terms Cash." People occasionally, we were told, got the idea it was a wishing well and tossed coins into the water under the wheel. Across from the mill, and separated from it by a piece of tumbling New England hillside, was a blacksmith shop. Once...
...last week, Italian moppets were gleefully playing a new game-"To Rome in Holy Year." Invented by a Jesuit priest named Sergio de Gioia, who also instructs the youth of Italy with what he calls "a catechistic newspaper with comic strips," the new game is played by spinning a wheel to determine the number of squares the player may advance on his journey to the Holy Father...
Some squares, such as those marked "Courtesy" or "Communion," offer a new spin of the wheel or an advance of several notches. Others impose severe penalties. At square 17 the player loses a turn and must go back to number 10 for "yielding to the Devil's temptation." The same punishment is demanded for reading the red-splashed "evil press" (number 31). The worst penalty of all is attached to the last square-number 49-which sends the young "pilgrim" all the way back to number 5, the square marked "Religious Instruction." On square 49 is a picture...