Word: cartwheeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarters (but only for a fresh uniform) and started on the messages and orders of the second day. His only propitiatory gesture to the gods of war and luck had been a judicious rubbing of his seven pocket pieces-a collection of old coins which includes a cartwheel silver dollar, a British five-guinea piece and a French franc...
Occasionally a newcomer tries to put something over on the teams. A few years ago a retired doctor was welcomed into the league. First time at bat, he socked a ball into left field, trotted around to second base, then turned a cartwheel to prove he was not in the least bit tuckered. His suspicious teammates delved into the doctor's background, discovered he was only 73, banished...
...Grycie," yelled a visiting British tar, "do us a cartwheel!" Gracie Fields, once the world's highest paid comedienne, obliged. Then, opening her full bag of tricks, she displayed the wares that had hoisted her from a shilling-a-week trouper to first lady of the English music halls, at $750,000 a year, before U.S. and British income taxes. Scratching, sniffling, grimacing, Gracie clowned her "low but clean" repertory, squealing high C, telling screwy Lancashire stories, whooping up a community sing with the servicemen packing her audience...
...newcomers were Packard, Plymouth, Studebaker. All showed the same trend: longer, lower bodies, further streamlining, an impression of massiveness attained by redesigned front ends, cartwheel-sized hubcaps, heavy grilles, thigh-thick bumpers. Amazing was their glitter. The touted shortage of chrome, nickel, other bright metals was not in evidence on the surface. The use of plastics was up, but not much more than in recent years. Some details...
...that confidence. I think he would. But he does not have it now. He would have to win it and in winning it some of his supporters would be his greatest liability. Roosevelt has it, and time is of the essence." The sight of Miss Thompson's skirty cartwheel "saddened," "astounded," "shocked" readers of her column in the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Wrote one reader to the editors: "Good heavens! What are you thinking about to let this occur...