Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John's (Annapolis, Md.) a rebellious freshman mob started after a tyrannical sophomore, bent on dumping him in the Severn River. Suddenly they were confronted by a grim, menacing figure. "I suggest that you act like gentlemen," snapped St. John's new President Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, 51, onetime Federal Prohibition Administrator. Thereupon the freshmen melted away...
...muckraker. They hate him as a Socialist. They hate him as an I. W. W. sympathizer. They hate him as a "free love" cultist. They hate him as a Single Taxer. They hate him as an atheist. And last week they hated him most of all because he was bent on becoming a confiscationalist. How It Started. More than a year ago Upton Sinclair sat down in his study to write a pamphlet called I, Governor of California And How I Ended Poverty. In it he presented his EPIC Plan. In substance it carried the far-flung Western barter-group...
...obsolete recording methods for emergency service. Reason was that bald, long-nosed William Fox, armed with a U. S. Supreme Court patent decision, was out of the well-lined hole into which he was cudgeled four years ago. This half-forgotten ex-newsboy and shoe-polish hawker was bent on raising as much hell as possible in the industry from which he had been exiled. In October 1929, William Fox celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his film enterprises. Frenzied buying and frenzied borrowing had made him the undisputed grand panjandrum of cinema, ruling a $200,000,000 empire...
...Twice thrown out of Producer William Harris Jr.'s office in a day, he returned a third time. To squelch him, Harris gave him the script of The Criminal Code, told him to come back next morning with complete sketches and blue prints for the stage design. Prodigy Johnson bent to this mighty task, appeared next morning with the work. He had subordinated detail to mass and form, and his designs not only were accepted but assured him overnight of a good living...
...shot got Surgeon Lieut. D. J. W. Robinson. He spun up, clutching his side, toppled overboard and disappeared. As the Turks kept on firing, wounded Lieut. Maunsell and the remaining British officer dived into the Aegean and swam for dear life toward Greece until picked up by other pleasure-bent Britons...