Word: culbertson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against the Indians, Harvard hitters walloped starter Glen Culbertson for six runs and six hits, including triples by Bill Kelly and Turco in the first inning. Dartmouth tagged southpaw J. C. Nickens for five runs in as many innings and tied the game in the seventh...
...authors, Protestant Housewives Judi Culbertson and Patti Bard, define some of the more popular plonks, gambits and counterploys...
Apart from his theatrical successes including two Pulitzer Prizes, Georges' (for the hell of it) Kaufman left an impressive and wildly varied shelf of gold cups. Ely Culbertson called him "the best amateur bridge player in the country," and Actress Mary Astor, in her celebrated diary, described him as the "perfect" lover. "I take no games lightly," said the playwright, and he did not. He played croquet, his literary set's favorite outdoor pastime, with ferocity, assuming a stance that reminded Woollcott of "a morning-glory vine climbing a pole." He was one of the deadliest pot rakers...
...retired at 31 as the millionaire owner of a paper company, devoted much of his life thereafter to playing and experting at bridge; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In 1931, after he and Partner Oswald Jacoby were challenged ($10,000 to $1,000) by Upstart Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson and Wife Josephine to a 150-rubber match billed as "The Bridge Battle of the Century," Lenz fell into eclipse when the Culbertsons, promoting their new honor-trick system, talked and slammed their way to an 8,980-point victory...