Word: pinching
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...this reputation by doing the expected. As famed as their knack of getting caught between bases has been the Dodgers' knack of expressing themselves in puzzling ambiguities. Last week, Manager-elect Grimes maintained one tradition of the team while he saluted another. Said he: "I have to pinch myself to make believe it's not a dream...
...Paso, Tex. a physician boarded the train, ordered Nominee Landon to bed to save his throat for important speeches. Thereafter members of his party pinch hit before disappointed station crowds along the way, explaining that the Nominee was busy and "very tired." After a day of that. Alf Landon allowed them to reveal the real reason for his nonappearance...
...country in peace as well as in war, the American Legion stages annually the World's Greatest Organized Drunk. There pot-bellied morons, stinking drunk, and once again briefly freed from the ties of home, dirty up the town which has been lucky enough to secure their services, pinch and heckle the female passers-by, and in general demonstrate to the world the manifold advantages of the democracy for which it was, unfortunately, not made safe...
...that the League Assembly take action about the munitions now reaching Spain's White Armies contrary to the declared embargo of the Great Powers (TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Possibly because Madrid is now also beginning to get such munitions, Geneva success was achieved by those putting the pinch on Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo. While he could not be persuaded to keep quiet, his empurpled and highflown Latin oration about Democracy being at the crossroads in Madrid was completely stultified by Orator Alvarez del Vayo himself when he announced that last week the Madrid Cabinet...
Miss Worthingham pinch-hit for Margaret Jewell, instructor of physical education in San Jose (Calif.) State College, where the four strapping dancing demonstrators were students. Had Miss Jewell been present in Los Angeles last week, she would have advised playing on drums for cripples. Wrote she: "Excellent postural results can be derived from cross-legged sitting, trunk erect, arms lifted from the shoulder-elbows akimbo, while the pupil's interest is intrigued with rhythmic patterns to be played on her drum. Heart cases who often feel very 'out of things' because of numerous restrictions may become valuable...