Word: pepperpot
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...Frank ("The Old Flash") Frisch, 48, onetime second-baseman for the New York Giants, and pepperpot manager of the famous St. Louis Cardinal "Gashouse Gang," a man who outtalked his foes when he couldn't outplay them, the game's most impish umpire-baiter. He stepped out last fall as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, now raises flowers at his New Rochelle (N.Y.) home, hopes to broadcast New York Giant games this season...
...Mort before joining the Navy last spring, got No. 1 priority on the sales list by blabbing that he would never again put on a Cardinal uniform. The Cooper news was hardly out before the Pittsburgh Pirates admitted that, they had put up some $30.000 for the Cards' pepperpot, switch-hitting Second Baseman Jimmy Brown. Other anxious buyers fretted on the Cardinal doorstep...
Penelope was a ship of many nicknames. In 14 days of continuous air attack at Malta she was pierced with some 2,000 bomb fragments; her admiring crew promptly dubbed her "H.M.S. Pepperpot." After the worst holes were plugged with planks, they added another: "H.M.S. Porcupine." While she was alongside a Malta dock, bomb hits on shore threw so much debris around her decks that for a time she became "H.M.S. Rockgarden...
...exile was no novelty to George II. In & out of the pepperpot politics of pre-World War II Greece, he had spent twelve years in more or less bored exile in Bucharest and London—a small-scale royal life of fast cars, lovely ladies, Mayfair clubs and divorce. In 1935 he was taken back to his throne in Athens. Five years later war rolled down his rocky peninsula. George stayed with his people to the end, fled only at the last moment...