Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refused, Edward Pawley in the role of the bootlegger stood outside the closed rooming house door and said: "You can go to hell." This and his subsequent remarks were murmurous realities. The rest was mere melodramatic pressure. Peggy Shannon, an advertised titian contest winner from Pine Bluff, Ark., flirted gaily through the first act but disappeared before the grim days...
There seems to be one flaw in Prof. Rogers' argument. Fundamentally his ideas may be right. But not everyone is able to bluff into a situation, and carry out the bluff with the finesse which is proper. If one is able to carry out the "snob doctrine" in a natural manner. Prof. Rogers assures him that his future is made. Daily Hlini
...said he could put through the deal in a month if you were willing to sell. I think what he says was nine-tenths bluff...
...question was on its obscenity. The prosecutor "explained" the case 'to the jury. He read excerpts from Havelock Ellis and Henry Louis Mencken recommending the pamphlet, but later Judge Barrows instructed the jury: "I warn you against giving these the credence of testimony." Then Prosecutor Wilkinson, a fine, bluff man, read the pamphlet aloud while the courtroom, crowded with spectators, listened breathlessly...
...those of Yale. The importance of such a matter as a large enough float for the freshman crew is comprehensible even to those unfamiliar with rowing conditions. To replace the old buildings with modern, sanitary structures will obviously improve the general training conditions. In their excellent position on a bluff overlooking the river, the new buildings will put Harvard's athletes in quarters suitable for the encounter that faces them...