Pros and Amateurs Inko Deep in Fun Sports Row
A lively critique on sportsmanship across sports from baseball to golf and boxing, noting incidents from Brooklyn to Maryland. It mentions Lee Grissom and Babe Phelps altercations, McGraw’s belt trick, Derby antics, and golf debates about Open scoring, plus college and amateur antics and famed figures.
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Brooklyn
Lee Grissom
Babe Phelps
David
Goliath
John Joseph McGraw
McGraw
Spec Towns
Georgia
Tech
Glenn Cunningham
Jack Irwin
Princeton
Gene Venske
Randalls Island
Archie Sao Romani
Denver
Little
Lafayette
Esky Clark
Lewis
Ernie Nevers
Stanford
Ple Traynor
The
Pirates
Jerry Day
Tommy Pierce
Babson Institute
Army
Boston College
Gil Dobie
Gil
Jimmy Marks
Kiski
Lawson
Goodman
Sarafaci
Fischer
Dunlap
Princetons
Yales
Tigers
Malcolm Farmer
Eli Athletics
al Lane
Princeton Frosh
Art Lane
Steve Cullinan
Stalin and Crawford biographies reveal ambition versus fate
The passage contrasts Joseph Stalin's youth and path from a forced priestly education to Bolshevik leadership with Joan Crawford's hard early life. It traces Stalin's arrests, exile, and dictatorship after Lenin's death, and Crawford's rise from cleaning jobs to a film career via shows and cabarets, emphasizing perseverance amid adversity.
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Josef Stalin
Tiflis
Stalin
Josef Vissarionovitch Drugashvili
Josef
Gori
Russia
Sem
Crawford
Kansas City
Joan
Chicago
Detroit
New York
Shubert
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Ask Me Another Trivia Quick Facts Quiz Highlights
Population gains pace with births every 14 seconds and a net gain of one person every 35 seconds. Blackstone’s fame masks limited legal grasp, per Collier's Weekly. Baseball injuries outpace fatal harm, speed to escape earth is 6.95 miles per second. Elephants eat about 100 pounds daily, not 10 tons proportional to a mouse. Supreme Court closed 14 months from 1801 to 1803, meeting only once annually.
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United States
William Blackstone
United States Supreme Court
Sir William Blackstone
England
Collier's Weekly
Congress
Supreme Court
Untitled Proverb Snapshots from a Murky Column
A fragment from a column presents aphorisms on generosity, futility, and social ascent. It contrasts helpful behavior with vanity, notes angels do not waste effort, and urges practical kindness. Other lines touch on culture, rhetoric, and common sense learned from experience.
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Don Meade
Maryland
Crusaders For
Pittsburgh
Wrigley Field
Max Bodenheim
Mike Jacobs
Red Bank
N. J
Fred Fitzsimmons
Waite Hoyt
Dodgers
Fliz
John J. McGraw
Hoyt
Miller Huggins
Reds
Fort Worth
Houston
Bill Barfield
Florida
Ducky Pond
Yale
Larry Kelley
Greasy Neale Brain
Harry Bill
Lawrenceville
Frankie Strafaci
Frankie
Lawson Little
Batum
Stockholm
Lenin
Trotsky
Joan Crawford
Dan Crawford
San Antonio
Texas
Lawton
Oklo
Planta
Jeb
HE Ein Liberia
Cluber
Firestone
Vane
Firestone Save
Firestone Auto Supply Service
Firestone Auto
Nof
Firestone Aargaret