The Yankees offered Williams a minor league deal, but he would not accept a nonguaranteed contract.

A faint string of smoke was rising from a cigarette-tray—a number of Vanity Fair sat astraddle on the table.

The poor sods aren’t exactly blaming me for the declining value of the “South Pacific peso” but they have to direct their panic somewhere.

If you're an ordinarily enthusiastic fan, you may see it or you may not. If your fannishness is of the deckle-edged, double-breasted, inner-tube, twin-cylinder variety, you're sure to know it.