Word: clambering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politely returned Author Eipper the peels and pips of a gift-orange. Mr. Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image. He watched the pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said he: "If I see them riding . . . the animal atmosphere is dispelled...
Travelers going south from Indianapolis along the Dixie highway noticed last week, as others did all summer and autumn, uncouth men clamber out of the wooded gullies and ravines of Morgan County. The men had in common an intent, secretive, yet futile look on their faces. They were diamond hunters. Every day they waded Indiana's creeks and panned the gravel left there long ago by glaciers. Frequently they found grains of gold; rarely, yet often enough to stir hope, they found a small diamond. Because similar diamonds have been found in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, in the terminal...
...women won the first match by a score of 5-2. Many spectators started to watch them but a cold wind blew most of them away; only a handful remained at the end to watch Dorothy Hunt-Hogan, the Canadian No. 1, topple off her pony and clamber back on again to finish the match...
...musical show. Usually, as impersonated by one of his many imitators, the Mayor would appear in the last act, a deus ex machina, to solve the transitory problems of the plot. When he attended the show there would be a bridling invitation from the management and the dignitary would clamber readily from his seat in the front row to be himself upon the stage. The producers of Say When had more ambitious plans for the chief municipal executive. Reflecting that he had long ago written a now famous chanson, "Will You Love Me in December...
...Kansas Democrats, supposedly friendly to Candidate Reed, unexpectedly instructed their 20 delegates for U. S. Representative William A^ Ayres of Wichita. Though Candidate Reed remained Kansas' second fiddle, Smith men interpreted the naming of Candidate Ayres as a move to let Kansas clamber gracefully aboard the Smith bandwagon...