Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frankly unprepared for the cross-country and jumping contests, the team yielded all but the bottom posts, although Estin eked out a 12-out-of-17 in the former and 16-out-of-20 in the latter to rate the team a final fourth...
...song for all and maybe a little more than it's worth. As one of the Harvey girls, she also fires pistols, plunges wholeheartedly into catfights with dancehall girls and falls in love with the owner of the local gambling den-bold, bad Ned Trent (John Hodiak). At bottom, of course, Ned is not too bad, for on the sly he reads Longfellow and admires the rugged scenery. Besides, there is a still bigger crook in town called Judge Purvis (Preston Foster...
...Ottawa, the broad lawn on Parliament Hill shook off its mantle of snow. All across the province deep drifts fell away to little dirty mounds; streets were choked with slush. The Sauble River, the Etobicoke, the Humber, the Sydenham and the Big Head boiled over their banks. As the bottom went out of roads in the Maritimes. logging virtually stopped...
...tradition-loving U.S. Navy was getting set to pitch a sea bag full of salt-rimed traditions overboard. Ready for the deep six were the square collar (origin: to protect blouses from tarred pigtails), the black neckerchief (to mourn the death of Lord Nelson), the bell-bottom trousers (to roll up easily for swabbing decks). For enlisted men, who had long envied the practical elegance of officers' uniforms while chafing at the lack of pockets and the tight fit of their own "monkey suits," it was good news. At shore stations and in the Fleet last week...
...From the Bottom. At any Courier-Journal family reunion, Bingham could feel at home. His father, rich Judge Robert Worth Bingham, had bought the paper in 1918-and had promptly plumped for the League of Nations, thereby losing Marse Henry as editor. The Judge wanted his son to start at the bottom, so after Harvard Barry earnestly filled a succession of jobs on both the papers and WHAS, the Binghams' radio station. In 1937 the Judge died in office as Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Britain, and Barry Bingham inherited all three enterprises...