Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toothsome Patricia Ellis and the dogged Alan Jenkins, Mr. Cagney's perennial henchman. The Kid himself, may best be described as presenting an able impersonation of James Cagney. We particularly admired the chivalry with which, in the last reel, he permitted his bride a pretty attempt at assault...
...violent minority must by this time have become heartily sick of this goal post business. Excusable some eight years ago as the overt expression of collegiate rejoicing at a long awaited victory over a traditionally triumphant Harvard, the assault has at long sad last become a trite ritual. Last week the H.A.A. News dismissed the destruction of the posts as a manifestation of that old demon rum, and pointed with pride to the fact that very few of either student body engaged in the fray...
Madrid, Oct. 8--The conservative Spanish government, fighting for its existence against the combined assault of extremists in every quarter of the Young Republic, appeared today to have gained complete mastery over the largest rebel strongholds...
Lucky Jaspara Servia recovered, after Dr. John S. Deyell of Ravenna sewed up two five-inch rips in the bowel. Pranksters Daniel Desko and Frank Pudaski, who admitted inflating Servia as "a practical joke," were arrested, held in $500 bond on charges of assault...
...present Cabinet were wasting their time debating anxiously such a minor factor as the alcoholic strength of a drink which gets its chief effect from wormwood (absinthium) which contains the powerful narcotic absinthin. The alcohol in absinthe acts as the carrier and catalyst of the drug in its subtle assault upon the brain. Neither wormy nor a wood, wormwood is a bitter-tasting weed fairly common in Europe and the U. S. under such local names as madderwort, mugwort, ming-wort, warmot and wermuth. Swiss farmers never think of buying absinthe, but make it at home from their own weeds...