Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among exiled Greek royalties those who dislike beauteous Marina, Duchess of Kent, insist that this onetime Princess of Greece is a clever, ambitious minx bent on jacking up her husband into something of more consequence than the youngest and willowiest son of Britain's George V. Marina knows that Greek Premier...
...behalf of the Senate's lobby investigation, Senator Hugo La Fayette Black last week diligently plied a spade in his dirt pile, "big enough to keep 20 committees busy." Almost equally diligent was Chairman O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, bent on a similar investigation. Some spadefuls they turned...
Promptly at midnight the Pontchartrain's lights went out and the boat vanished in the night. On the hilltop slick-haired, thin-lipped Captain Lawrence L. Clayton of the U. S. Army Signal Corps and a sergeant bent over an apparatus of which the handful of witnesses, mostly newsmen, could make out little except the vague outline of a cylinder and the dim flicker of electric bulbs. Synchronized with the mechanism was an 800,000,000 candlepower Sperry searchlight mounted on a truck a few feet away...
...equipment came in for more attention than the posers because platform, seesaw and springboard were all made of glass. This flexible, resilient glass, called "tempered glass'' by its U. S. manufacturer, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., is about five times stronger than plate glass, can be bent or twisted 20° out of its plane, is unharmed by sudden temperature shifts, and when finally shattered by a severe impact does not fly into jagged slivers but crumbles harmlessly into small bits...
...Citizens bent on refining Pittsburgh's ebullient Mayor William Nissley McNair last fortnight took him to Kaufmann's Department Store to see "Broadacre City," a scale model of a modernistic decentralized community by Radical Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Mayor McNair whistled, let fly: "It's all right but you could never put Democrats in there. What if they'd want to get drunk or visit somebody's wife? This thing is Utopia. I'll bet they even tell you how many babies to have in each house. I just sent a gang of drunks to the workhouse. Put that bunch...