Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...celebrities out on her jazz floor, makes them perform, makes them ridiculous to their own intense delight-for the crowd are all clannishly impersonal and good-humored. Therefore, last week Prince Henry was not irked when Miss Jones sought to draft him as a contestant in an impromptu black bottom contest...
...life. It is not the romantic southern sky, the "Bellaza" that he cares for. He cannot suppress his northern inclinations, his preference for Denmark rather than Italy; and artist though he may be by profession, and may feel himself to be-his closest friend tells him that at the bottom of his heart he is not an artist-but a bourgeois gone astray. It is a hard judgement, but he accepts it and its consequences...
...that great political issue of whether or not the police commissioner's nose was punched. This was the issue and the successful candidate's handling of it was largely responsible for his victory. But let us not be misled into thinking that this was the only cause. At the bottom of many political victories is the well-organized machine. And this too will not be seen in Washington. The machine, depending on the size of the candidate's campaign contributions and on the skill with which he handles the patronage in his district, is the broad foundation stone on which...
...stunt in 1912 and were killed. Lieutenant Doolittle began his loop above Dayton, Ohio, at an altitude of 8,000 feet, flying at 150 miles per hour. His great dangers were the collapse of his plane or the breaking of straps which held him in the cockpit, at the bottom of the loop. Even though his plane held together Lieutenant Doolittle came out of the loop with bloodshot eyes and a slight hemorrhage of the lungs. At one point he had attained a speed...
...clowns were not what they were in my day, or even in yours, kind reader. Influenced by the last feeble, thwarting repercussions of the romatic movement they forgot their classic heritage; they forgot even to be funny; and they did the Black Bottom! I did not let my less critical roommate see my tears. He too, some day, will grow up and learn that we are but shadows in a shadow land, that even, even the clowns of today are. . . . . well, must...