Word: bolsterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generalissimo Francisco Franco moved into the spotlight on the Spanish civil war stage last week, took personal command of the drive on Santander, last important Loyalist stronghold on the Biscay coast. Anxious to bolster his prestige, chubby Franco stood behind his lines, watching as his Rightists, Moors, Italian "volunteers" rolled down the sloping hills toward Santander...
...England, and close to the top of summer theatricals, stands the Lakewood Theatre near Skowhegan. Me. Lakewood was established in 1901 to bolster up a trolley line. Herbert L. Swett had just taken charge of the five-mile line between Skowhegan and an amusement park on the shore of what was then called Hayden's Pond. On the grounds was an auditorium in which were held spiritualist meetings. Mr. Swett thought that a company of actors would encourage a larger volume of traffic for the carline, and he was right...
...where his speed will count more than in his former inside position. Jim Field has been brought up from the J.V. team on the basis of his play on Saturday. He will play the other wing. Henry Miller, who also played on the J.V. team on Saturday, will help bolster up the scrum which proved a little weak in the Nassau game. With Jerry Desmond and Alan Simpson as inside three-quarters, the back line looks quite strong for this game. With one game behind them the team ought to be playing more as a unit today and the outlook...
...creates a new identity for herself-that of Livvy, her imaginary niece. Artifice having restored the necessary ringlets, dashing Valentine conspires to his own defeat. After succumbing to her petticoat ambush, he saves the reputation of Miss Throssel by sending home the coquettish Livvy in the form of a bolster in shawl and bonnet, under the scandal-hungry eyes of all Quality Street...
Only surprise man in the lineup is Groudahl in left field. Last year as a Freshman he was regular shortstop but his hitting in the cage has impressed Mitchell so that he has been shifted to bolster the weak-sticking outer garden squad...