Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Barkley bit through a pipestem while waiting for the results of the Senate's poll on a new leader. He slid through, score 38-37. From his eminence as President Roosevelt's "good friend Alben," the new Leader can look back on a career very American: birth in a log cabin, campaigning on a mule for an early prosecuting attorneyship, learning law in a picturesque law office, finally soliciting votes by way of horse and buggy to get to Washington in 1912. There he has remained, leaving the House for the Senate...
Senator Barkley bit through a pipestem while waiting for the results of the Senate's poll on a new leader. He slid through score 38-37. From his eminence as President Roosevelt's "good friend Alben," the new Leader can look back on a career very American: birth in a log cabin, campaigning on a mule for an early prosecuting attorneyship, learning law in a picturesque law office, finally soliciting votes by way of horse and buggy to get to Washington in 1912. There he has remained, leaving the House for the Senate...
...along through the waves was bliss; and times again when the wind whistled down from the north, when to sit in that cockpit was o wish to be dead, and to go below into the tumbling cabin was like wrestling with the hand of death itself. He mused a bit in the half light of the tin shed, and his eye caught on a splintered piece of the coaming, where a catboat full of roisters, flown with insolence and wine, had rammed him at anchor one moonlight night in Newport harbor. He burned a little, thinking of the language...
...last time Henry Fonda appeared on the Broadway stage he was skippering an Erie Canal boat in The Farmer Takes a Wife. His sleepy-eyed, lethargic charm has since done him yeoman service in Hollywood but somehow seems a bit too somnolent now that he is back in Manhattan on his sailboat. Doris Dalton makes a pleasingly limber heroine...
...hundred and ninety pounds, one of the fastest men out there, and a pretty good football player in his own right, Williams could he an All-American soccer goalie. But last year he had his post on a cinch. This year he'll have to step around a bit. Sammie Merrill, captain of the 1940 Freshman booters, wants the job. So does Henry Riecken who saw a lot of soccer balls as Jayvee net minder last year...