Word: willowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the fifth and sixth frames. Molloy, who had assumed twirling duties, baffled the Villanova willow-wielders, but a series of safe blows in the seventh gave them what proved to be their winning run. The Harvard pitcher had matters well in hand from then on. The final stanza saw the spectacular Crimson rally fail narrowly...
Coach Coughlin of the Easton outfit will most probably call upon Murberg to battle the Crimson willow-wielders this afternoon, and judging from his record he should be able to turn in a good account of himself. Four victories are credited to him, and he is anxious to add the Mitchell machine to his growing list...
...Prior '29, hard-hitting first sacker, is showing the way to his teammates in individual performances with the willow, having collected a .419 average to date. Numerically he is preceded by J. D. Dudley '31 with his mark of .438 but the fact that the latter has made less than half the number of trips to the plate renders him ineligible to a consideration for the leading position...
...Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. In one volume.-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). On the banks of the Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling well by which "the master" sat, and a stone table on which he is said to have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences (in 1909). But the Bishops of Buenos Aires, having heard of Rabelais' earthy humor, and having heard of the impious Anatole France, denounced...
TIME, perpetuating an ancient myth, can help explode it. Artificial limbs are made of willow-metal; never of cork. I know. I've had to buy one every five years for half a century...