Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grazing the singer's ear, burned him severely. Outraged, he quitted Landlady Hitter's establishment, after a stay of 18 years...
...Pittsburgh has the better hitting, and they are just as good defensively. The star twirlers of the Washington club won't be so effective against the attack of the Pirates because the Pittsburgh team has only one left-hand hitter in its batting order, and the Senators' good pitchers are right-handers...
...sculpture; the style of a racing thoroughbred; the bright, scrupulous cruelty of an accomplished boxer. It has been proved a thousand times that neither this speed nor the grace that is its afterglow has much to do with efficiency-that the clumsy nag can often travel fastest, the hardest hitter win-but men persist in betting on good form. This was illustrated one damp evening last spring in a Manhattan boxing ring (TIME, June...
...dead. Battler McCoy is an old man. Last week he was shuffling home from work through a lonely park when he was set upon by three weasel-faced fellows-men who, in soggy swaddling-clothes, were mewing for their mothers when McCoy was trading cuffs with the hardest hitter who ever put on a glove-thin rogues whom, in the days of his pride, he could have broken with a slap of his hand. They knocked him down with a piece of iron pipe, strove to take from his finger a $3,000 diamond ring. Unable to pull the thin...
...this news came the report that Marshal Pétain (whom a U. S. correspondent called "France's military pinch-hitter") would make an early return to France, leaving General Naulin in supreme command of military operations in Morocco. It appeared that the Marshal had been sent to France to make an expert survey for the Government. Prince Aago of Denmark, nephew of Queen Mother Alexandra of Britain, was wounded in the hand while fighting the Riffians in the French Foreign Legion...