Word: baring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racquetmen have a bare chance of taking the league crown but it is almost certain that it will be won by the Newton Centre Squash Racquets Club...
Throughout the week Amir Amanullah pursued a strenuous routine. At his request all banquet speeches were cut to bare minimums of compliment. Thus time was gained in which His Majesty visited numerous industrial plants and later the great Tempelhofer flying field. There he was presented with a 10-passenger 3-motored plane worth some $60,000. Doubtless the makers hope for future cash orders from Afghanistan, but last week "The Light of the World" did not so much as take a trial sweep in his expensive toy. What seemed to interest His Majesty most was a military review, during which...
...reporters wrote the story of Mlle. Roseray's inadequate demise with a tender and child-like sorrow. Their pathetic little fictions, when completed, were not consigned to wastebaskets by intelligent city editors; instead they were flapped onto front pages, otherwise almost bare of news, as is customary on metropolitan Monday mornings. The New York World had a picture spread. The Times had a front page and breakover. The American made it the day's feature. The tabloids, preparing to print pictures of a meal sack labeled "This is what the corpse of Mlle. Roseray looked like when...
...March 1927, when dilution began, True Story promised much, gave little. On its cover was a colored picture of a voluptuous-looking woman with hair down, shoulders bare except for a hint of negligee. The story titles included "The Price of Secret Love," "The Treacherous Kiss," "My Terrible Mistake," "My Reckless Romance," and even more urgent subtitles. But, though the number of thwarted seductions increased alarmingly, there were only two successful ones. This issue also contained a page bearing the legend...
...sack, then put the sack in a truck leaving a back entrance of Madison Square Garden, to avoid porters instructed to let no dog leave the building without properly identified escort. When Reginald M. Lewis, owner of Warily Gang Leader and Talavera Margaret, returned, the kennel was bare. His loss was approximately...