Word: wilbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SELECTED POEMS-Wilbert Snow-Edwin Valentine Mitchell ($2.50). Serious verse on many aspects of life along the Maine seacoast...
Shrewd, humble, honest and prodigiously rotund, Wilbert Robinson has been manager of the Brooklyn Baseball team, named for him "the Robins," since 1913. Before that, as catcher for the Baltimore Orioles, most celebrated team in baseball history, he once bit off an injured thumb so he could finish a game. Last week, the directors of the Brooklyn Club, possibly the most valuable property in the National League, decided they needed a new manager, selected one Maximillian Carnarius ("Max Carey"), onetime Pittsburgh outfielder...
Sixty-four-year-old Wilbert Robinson is so well known in Brooklyn that, when his team is losing, citizens stop him on the street, tell him to wear a hat because his brains are dusty. When the directors held their meeting, he was at Dover Hall, his estate in Georgia, where he spends the winters hunting deer, ducks, or turkey, and tippling old corn whiskey with his friends. Though he grunted when he heard the news, Wilbert Robinson could not have been much startled. His mortal enemy, Stephen W. McKeever, chairman of the board of directors, has been urging...
...Father Wilbert J. Austin, President of Cleveland's famed Austin Co. (engineers and builders), has on his Cleveland desk a large, translucent, electrically-lighted earth globe on which New Nijni-Novgorod is spotted 270 miles east of Moscow...
...their last 24. Since August I, when no one thought them very likely to get the pennant, they had taken 43 out of 55, boosted their percentage more than 100 points. In the most exciting pennant contest in years, they had stood off the brilliant spurts of "Uncle" Wilbert Robinson's erratic Brooklyn players and the threat of the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs. Three days before their deciding victory over the Pirates they broke the season's record for base hits, getting 26 in the game in which they beat the Phillies...