Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics is "the greatest handicap in the enforcement of Prohibition . . . most responsible for its failures." Observed Mrs. Willebrandt: "Politics and liquor are as inseparable a combination as beer and pretzels." Though she did not name the late great Boies Penrose, she cited the fact that $250,000 in cash was found in a safe deposit box on his death and insinuated that this was "dirty money" for the political manipulation of Prohibition enforcement in Pennsylvania. She recalled appeals made by politicians for such prominent convicted 'leggers as George Remus (Cincinnati) and the La Montagne brothers (Manhattan). Declared Mrs. Willebrandt...
...excuse for bored and wintry sarcasms. It repeated, stupidly, the theatrical cliche of the wife who wanted her husband to love her and whose trite appetites were gratified through the complicating assistance of her husband's friend. Alan Mowbray, of Theatre Guild scrub casts, wrote it himself, a handicap which his histrionic ability was not sufficient to overcome...
...popular conception of an operatic tenor than of a chess player. Bogoljubow is best Russian player, although the Soviet government, disapproving of some capitalistically sponsored tournament which he entered, officially deprived him of his title, and at the same time equally officially gave him a pawn-and-move handicap against any other Russian player...
...Pittsburgh and Chicago popping in and out of first place. Last year's Champion, the St. Louis Club, is a poor fourth, mostly through collapse of the pitching staff. The New York "Giants" are third but here again the common ailment of poor pitching has been a grave handicap. Pitcher Grimes, whose fine work has held up the Pittsburgh Club, last week had his thumb dislocated by a fast liner. If he is long on the bench, the Chicago Club should be the next champion. Outstanding Chicagoans are Infielder Rogers Hornsby and Outfielders Hack Wilson (who recently got into...
Fuel is the great handicap against sending rockets to great heights. No known fuel is sufficiently light and energetic to be useful...