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...better than any). Gehrig "mitt" smiled. and He took a "pegged" it. "pill" in his Farther than the bait, straighter than the drive, as swift as the arrow, flew his ball. On the ninth hole, by a single shot, he beat Diegel, received first prize - a golden wrist watch...
...precise rectangular criss-cross of streets that is Mexico City popped myriads of firecrackers, detonated cannon crackers as bulkily potent as an elephant's wrist. From the oozy slums half sliming into Lake Texcoco rose a clatter of revelry that carried even to aristocratic patios of the Colonia Juarez. Mexico's 115th Independence Day (Sept. 16) had arrived with the dealth-dealing rejoicings that marked an early Rooseveltian U.S. Fourth of July...
...grasp of two men. The women had broken away, and, as I watched, the two men ran up an alley and disappeared . . . About two blocks farther I saw a man who had been pinioned by two other men. One of them was behind him and had hold of his wrist, and the other had a hand in the man's pocket. . A woman came running up, and as the hold-up men disappeared she took the victim away. I haven't got the exact dates and places, but I will have and I will claim that $100 and give...
...ball. He never seems particularly concerned with what he is doing. No matter how fierce his match, he always has an air of being one of the linesmen. He depends for success on his celebrated chop-stroke- a shot which he executes with the same twist of the wrist that a chef in the front window of a low-grade restaurant employs to turn a pancake. The ball skims the net low, finds corners and clips lines with uncanny accuracy, bounces; extremely low. With it, Johnson clipped down Anderson, 6-1, 1-6, 8-6, 6-4. Next...
Captain Arrachart, famed French airman, stepped from his plane at a Paris flying field and turned a stiffened wrist to see the face of his watch. Other officers compared their time to his, excitedly contradicted him. He was just on time, they said. His confidence restored, the Captain pushed his way through the crowd on the landing field. He had just flown around Europe in 39 hr., 15 min. His schedule, which he adhered to with monotonous efficiency, began with breakfast in Paris on Monday, then...