Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed son of a San Francisco boiler worker went on to erase the stigma of that strikeout. The craftiest, quickest-thinking ball player in the major leagues, Second Baseman Lazzeri became the mastermind of the Yankee infield, helped them win six pennants and five World Series, became, next to Babe Ruth, the most popular player ever to wear a Yankee uniform. Thousands of New York's Italians, who up to that time had been content with boxing and boccie, began to stream into Yankee Stadium. "Poosh 'em up, Tony!" thereafter was the battle cry of the bleachers...
Governor Gordon Browning of Tennessee is not popular in Memphis because, after accepting the election support of Boss Ed Crump, he turned his back on that Democratic mastermind. One friend Governor Browning has in Memphis is Lawyer Ben W. Kohn, nowadays working hard for Mr. Browning's renomination in the August primary...
...Freshman Union Committee days for the same conglomeration of quasi-representative names. Now as Seniors we are asked to swallow the final cup of hemlock, rendering us dead to our rights and privileges, the great mass of us merely so many votes to be mechanically considered by that mastermind, the nominating committee, the answer to the dreams of a power-crazed Stalin...
...habeas corpus for all three on the grounds that Weiner's "wife was sick and business going to pieces." "You mind your own business," cried terrified Sam Weiner who, with Attorney Foley, had become convinced that his brother was being used as a lethal tool of gangland. Mastermind behind these midnight assaults and court scenes, believed the police, was one Joe Weiner (no kin to Poulterer Sam). Attorney Foley had him indicted with his seven henchmen. It proved easier to indict him than to find him. Police began combing the city, delaying the trial meanwhile. Joseph Weiner...
...they are successful, they are rewarded by fame, authority and opportunities to act in cinema. When Howard Jones began his career, such was not the case. Coaches were likely to be underpaid alumni. Their duties were menial. They had few assistants. None of them received adulation for possessing masterminds. First and greatest mastermind of football was, of course, the late Knute Rockne. Any player on a Rockne team was considered a miniature master mind; to have played on a Notre Dame team was qualification to be either a professional player or a $3,000-a-year coach...