Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He has this ten-car circus load its tents, stakes, poles and other paraphernalia loosely in baggage cars, when, if he has ever seen a circus in action, he would know that such material is loaded on wagons, which are run on flat cars. . . . According to Tully the wagons were...
But one day Los Angeles critics, reviewing a local art show, cast disdainful glances at an exhibit by Mr. Smith's wife, later tapped out on their typewriters with long, nervous fingers the snippy opinion that it was "distinctly of the old school." On reading this, Mr. Smith saw red...
The incident inspired Mr. Smith to further devilry. Affixing the signature, Pavel Jerdanowitsch, to the canvas, he changed the title from "Yes We Have No Bananas" to "Exaltation," sent the thing to the Exhibition of Independents at the Waldorf Astoria, Manhattan (1925).
Captain Arthur V. Rogers, British destroyer of 32 German planes, jumped. He felt the canvas mechanism of his parachute start functioning.* He hit the ground, was picked up dead. Captain Rogers was testing the Angel of Los Angeles. He circled, went into a nose dive, saw the ground coming up...
In Dallas, Tex., William Ledbetter, wrestler, wrapped powerful thighs around the head of Kenneth Turpin, wrestler. He squeezed. Kenneth Turpin wriggled, got away, applied his thighs to William Ledbetter's head. Ledbetter wriggled, got away. These tactics (called by wrestlers the "head scissors") continued. Soon Kenneth Turpin dropped to...