Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After his realms and states were moved To bare their hearts to the King they loved, Tendering themselves in homage and devotion, The tide wave up the Channel spoke To all those eager, exultant folk: ''Hear now what man was given you by the ocean...
...snatching war, thus giving other statesmen every opportunity to prove their humanitarianism by trying to stop him. II Duce went to the length of publicly demonstrating a compound produced by Italian chemists to be strewn by Italian airplanes on the soil of Ethiopia to sear and burn the proverbially bare feet of Emperor Power of Trinity's savage troops. At the demonstration a photographer trod on the stuff, was picked up by Italian soldiers and rushed to a watering trough into which the scorched leather soles of his shoes were thrust...
...Manhattan's Central Park Zoo, one midnight a policeman spied Anthony Sclafani in shorts and bare legs feeding grapefruit to the yaks. In court Sclafani produced a basket of green vegetables, told the magistrate, "See. All fresh vegetables. The yaks love grapefruit...
...schoolteachers were promptly released and forgotten, but in Manhattan able Playwright Odets was boiling with vivid word-pictures: "The food at Tiscornia was a strange broth of malt and beans. The water had an odd odor. The beds had no mattresses and the bare springs dug into our backs. The crude actions of the Cuban Government and the American Embassy make clear the fear on their part of honest investigation. Ambassador Caffery has a heart of Sugar. Vice Consul Donald D. Edgar played both ends against the middle. He is a fish. I am a Liberal, not a Communist...
...handful of people sat in the darkened auditorium of Chicago's Sonotone Theatre (cinemansion for the hard-of-hearing) one day last week. On its bare stage, students were singing opera to the accompaniment of a grand piano. Restlessly, ceaselessly between the stage and the aisles moved a rusty-blonde woman in white sports dress, white low-heeled shoes. She followed the singers about, pushing them, prompting them, gesturing at them, bursting occasionally into song or husky speech. She cried at the confused pianist: "Piano, piano, don't sprint! Follow the singer!'' She brusquely interrupted arias...