Word: hometown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hometown...
JACK YOUNGERMAN - Parsons, 24 West 57th. Born in Cassius Clay's hometown, he shares some of the Louisville slugger's expansiveness. His enormous abstractions become arenas where mammoth forms-within-forms wage war with raw colors for attention and space. Through April...
...voting," he said in Concord, "I'll be heading a rodco at home. I'l be riding an old palomino named Sonny--twenty-three years old but she rides better than a rocking chair..." (Laughter) "And as I ride down my mainstreet, I want the people in my hometown to point to me and say 'There's the fellah who won so big in New Hampshire.' That's why next Tuesday is so important to this particular candidate...
...stood proudly at the plate in his pin-stripe New York Yankee uniform, listening to the roar of the huge hometown crowd. "It's a hell of a thing," said Pinch-Hitter Harry Bright. "I wait 17 years to get into a World Series. Then I finally get up there, and 69,000 people are yelling-yelling for me to strike out." Whiff he did, thus capping a spectacular performance-for someone else...
...Which contained "Hatrack," the famed, banned-in-Boston story of Asbury's hometown, only-on-Sunday harlot, who, after being rebuffed and shunned at the Sabbath evening service, would haughtily head down the cemetery lane, where she would entertain as many as came, Catholics in the Masonic cemetery and vice versa...