Word: yips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circled his sheep pasture with woven-wire fence, hog-tight, bull-strong, and horse-high, Spring held him for an enemy although his own son Benjy (Eric Linden) loved the interloper's daughter, Camden (Maureen O'Sullivan). One night of good hunting, a dog's pain-yip in the dark and a trail of Bugle Ann's footsteps stopping at the interloper's gate made Spring feel that his neighbor had killed his lady. Therefore he killed the interloper with a bullet from his lever-action Winchester and was unmoved when they sent...
...Yip-pee!" yelled excited Democrats with one notable exception...
...farmers early for all appointments, so it was not much after nine when they began squeezing out of Washington's tiny taxicabs, deploying awkwardly into the huge building. *Inside, their embarrassment quickly wore off (see cut opposite, below). Constricting "store clothes" coats were peeled, exuberant cries of "Yip-pee!" went up and in an atmosphere part camp-meeting and part Saturday-night-at-the-county-fair, sectional lines began to appear...
...Fielder (his real name) Jones managed Chicago's "hitless wonders" White Sox team (batting average: .229), won a World Series from the Chicago Cubs whose infield included Tinker and Evers and Chance. Famed as an umpire baiter, he taught players such as Nick Altrock. Ed Walsh, Yip Owens, to steal bases, sacrifice. ¶Died. Horace Atlee Mann. 65, lawyer, politician; of heart disease; in Nashville, Tenn. Horace Mann was credited in 1928 with winning many a southern vote for Herbert Hoover, distributing anti-Catholic propaganda against Candidate Alfred E. Smith. When Herbert Hoover refused him southern patronage Mann turned...
...Kingfish" Long was not in Washington last week to yip defiance at his Senatorial foes or mess in a House investigation of one of his henchwomen. A House elections committee was considering the validity of Lallie Kemp's steamrollered election as a Representative from the 6th Louisiana District and finding it hard to believe Mrs. Kemp's statement that she did not know the Long machine was back of her until she "read it in the papers." By the time the week ended, Mrs. Kemp could read in the papers that neither she nor Jared Y. Sanders...