Word: featness
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...them from continuing to draw away from the Cardinals and last year's pennant winner, the Chicago Cubs. With 14 games left to play last week, the Giants needed to win only 11 to take the National League pennant even though St. Louis accomplishes the next to impossible feat of winning all its remaining...
When Schmeling unexpectedly knocked out Joe Louis last June, the next major fight in prospect was Schmeling v. Braddock. Either because wily little Joe Gould considers Schmeling more likely than Louis to beat his fighter or because, supposing that the feat can be accomplished by either, he would prefer to have it done by Louis who is sure to draw a bigger crowd, Manager Gould has never shown much eagerness to have the Schmeling v. Braddock fight take place...
...Schacht trick has been a feat of State bookkeeping, does not involve the printing of marks of different kinds. In the main, Dr. Schacht's procedure has been simply to hold or "block" in Germany payments owed to a foreigner and refuse to transfer them to him abroad. The foreigner was told that he could use these "blocked marks" to buy goods in Germany or could sell them to someone else in his own country who wished to do so. Obviously the foreign creditor could sell his blocked marks only at a discount and the effect of this...
Europe's champion tourist-flouters have consistently been Spaniards, whether or not they are having a Revolution. While Frenchmen assume that of course a foreigner is lucky to be in France at any price, Spaniards haughtily consider the tourist a fool for not staying at home. Greatest Spanish feat along this line was to build at stupendous cost in the days of King Alfonso XIII the finest network of concrete roads outside the U. S. and then omit to spend the few additional millions on advertising which would have made them teem with tourist cars. His Majesty personally...
...weeks' work of organizing it, who whipped the 285 players together after they had been rehearsed in sections. Conductor Erno ("Ernie") Rapée not only led the biggest symphonic orchestra ever assembled in Madison Square Garden through the 1812 and a Strauss waltz, but also performed the feat of arranging for it a trio Tchaikovsky originally wrote for piano, violin and cello...