Word: dodgerism
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Hampered by official red tape, Fielden hired to help him tall, twinkle-eyed Zulfiqar Ali Bokhari, who, as a translator for the Army, had become an adept red-tape dodger. By introducing a series of talks on "Widow Remarriage," "Untouchability," etc. he shocked the orthodox public into listening to his Bombay station. Objections were many and various. His assistant was kidnapped, mortified by being left in a bathing suit on top of a hill...
...this generation of Dodger fans, as devoted as they are daffy, the 1940 team is second to none. Even rival clubs admit the Dodgers have a crack infield and their pitchers have made them blink. Brooklyn may not boast a DiMaggio or a Feller, but, in its first nine games, the assorted collection of castoffs and come-ups assembled by President Larry MacPhail and Manager Leo Durocher proved that they are a clicking machine...
...will prove to be the No.1 rookie of the year-Giant Johnny Rucker, Yankee Marvin Breuer, Red Mike McCormick or Dodger Peewee Reese...
...unhappy ending to a 20-year-old story was written when a 13-man military court found World War I's slickest draft-dodger, pudgy Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, guilty of wartime desertion, sent him back to his Army cell on Governor's Island in New York Bay. Vainly had Bergdoll tried to invoke the statute of limitations as a peacetime fugitive by testifying that, while everybody thought he was still in Germany, he had twice returned to U. S. jurisdiction, had twice hidden in his Philadelphia home (once for four years), since his escape...
...Dodger Bergdoll said he had returned to pay up, be with his family and raise them as good Americans. He may not have that privilege. The Army may retry, resentence him for his escape. The U. S. Department of Labor contends that he has renounced his U. S. citizenship, is therefore deportable as an undesirable alien. The various agencies still interested in Grover Bergdoll could let him serve his time, then return him to Nazi Germany, where he no longer wants to live...