Word: flatbush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flatbush Exception Sirs...
Just beyond the outskirts of the Brooklyn community known as Flatbush-but geographically in a section called Crown Heights -there happen to be a few acres of ground called Ebbets Field. Undoubtedly, certain sport-minded residents are interested in what goes on there. But there is a widespread impression that not only Flatbush but all of Brooklyn is merely an extension of that ball park. TIME is one of the worst offenders in disseminating that humiliating propaganda...
Nobody in Flatbush blamed Leo and Laraine for flying to Juarez, Mexico, to get her a second divorce with no strings attached, or for driving back to El Paso to be married. But Los Angeles' Superior Judge George A. Dockweiler, who had granted Miss Day's first divorce plea, had a big objection. Together, the judge and the Durochers fought through the jungle of U.S. divorce laws...
...Washington apartment of Harry Brock, junk-dealer grown plump through sleight-of-hand in the war surplus bonanza. Against a backdrop of dignitaries come to sell their souls for a cut in Harry's ill-gotten gains, Billie--once a chorine in "Anything Goes"--alternately flits and slinks. Her Flatbush lingo leaves the wives of senators non-plussed; journalist Paul Verrill is assigned to "teach her a few things...
...give . . . St. Louis any better break than you give us. . . ." That afternoon Leo ("The Lip") Durocher used eight Dodger pitchers-a league record-in an unsuccessful attempt to beat the Phillies. Next day, star Outfielder Pete Reiser broke a leg sliding into base, while 32,000 Flatbush faithfuls groaned in intense, personal pain...