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Jiy Hl'jXItV McLEMORK Slaff CorrespondentNew York, Aug. 14. —The Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees meet at the Yankee stadium today in the most plob series of the 1934 baseball season,I say plob because I’m sick and tired of the word crucial, and I couldn’t find a substitute. I even went so far as to call up Doctor Frank H. Vizetelly,' chief lexicographer of the United States and a man who knows more about words than anybody else.“Dr. Vezetelly,” I said, “what word would you use to describe a series of five baseball games between the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees which is very important, in which much is at stake, and in which many things are likely to come to an immediate head? -----— —Eh?” said Doctor Vez-s telly, i“Doctor Vezetelly, £ repeated, I “what word would you use to * describe a series of five baseball , games between the Detroit Tigers; and New York Yankee* which is very important, in which much is at stake, and In which manythings are likely to come to an , immediate head?”“Crucial,” said Doctor Vez- Jetelly, 1“Doctor Vezetelly, I said, is J that the best you can lexleog”?Yes,” the doctor replied,“cruclal’s the word. Of course, there is always Rogete The- Jsaurus,”Luckily we had a Thesaurus, having purchased one in prepara- : tion for the yachting business off ■Newport in a few weeks. We turned to crucial.“Crucial: categorical, decisive, apoditic, unanswerable, conclusive, irresistable, irrefutable, irrefragable, undeniable, demonstrated, proven, uncontutated, etc., 4?4p.I tried ’em all.“The Yanka and Tigers meet today in an apoditic ser las ...”“The Tigers and Yanks lock horns today in a most categorical series ... 15“The Ruppert Rifles took the field against the Detroit Bengal* today in a series that is uncon-futated ...But none of them had the swing, the beauty, the — well, what Ludwig Von Beethoven chose to refer to as the divine divine,”The word plob has got divine divine. There is something mystical about plob. Did you 'ever sit out on a grassy knoll, with meadow larks singing, with the cool summer breeze caressing your tired brow? That’s what I call ploh. IThat, friends, is what is going to happon at the Yankee stadium tomorrow, riob. The Yankees and Tigers are going to meet in a plob series. Wa may know after this' plob series is over from whose world series flagpole the bunting or gonfalon (or plob) will float.Vlob j* leva.
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The Daily News
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Aug 14, 1934
Page 2
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Michael W.
NA, 29 Jul 2023
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