Word: bend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nobody heard what was said, but the implication was patent. At the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, the referee, bending above Pugilist Tom Gibbons, had looked with shrewd and not unkindly eyes at his split mouth, puffed face, smashed nose, blotchy body, put a question to him. In 30 seconds more, the bell would start the twelfth round of Gibbons' battle against Eugene Tunney, a handsome fellow with a pompadour, a mild face, who sat facing him from the opposite corner of the ring. Tiered in darkness, 40,000 watchers perspired freely. They saw the solicitous referee bend above Gibbons. They...
Parisian Nights. If these words penetrate to Buffalo Bend and Lockjaw Junction, the inhabitants are hereby warned that the title of this conception might better be: "So This Isn't Paris." It is full of Apaches and helpless American girls wandering the streets; it is full of stealthy smiles and lizard looks; it is full of just what a cinema of Parisian low life would be full of. Of course, the head Apache (Lou Tellegen) has a noble soul and rescues the American millionaires who wanted to sculp and got lost one night...
...Aged men should be silent, if possible, occasionally, as to politics, religion, education and science. But old men, if they have not lived in seclusion, should know something of manners. I bow before Dr. Angell [President James Rowland Angell] and his office; but he is young; and I may bend, from the frosty pinnacle of my great age, to speak to him, with paternal frankness, as to certain matters of ceremony...
Efficient as Democratic whip in the sessions of the House of Representatives, William A. Oldfield of Arkansas looked out from his Washington window upon the newsdealers and decided to bend the power of publicity to his purposes. Announcement...
...birth. An insurance statistician, Dr. Louis I. Dublin of Manhattan, was invited to present opposite views. He did so. declaring the population rise of the U. S. was no menace; indeed, the birth rate of the native population was steadily decreasing. He suggested that U. S. birth controllers bend their energies toward encouraging larger families among the well...