Word: clambering
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...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...
...bright eyed, tousled girl-child was seen to clamber up an iron lamp post in the Square of Julius Caesar at Milan last week. The King, her king was coming, and she wanted to see. Round about and beneath her surged merry, excited Milanese. They filled the whole square except for a lane guarded by picked, stalwart troops of the Alpine mountaineering service. In a moment His Majesty, beloved King Vittorio Emanuele III, would ride down the human lane and on to open Milan's great, annual Sample Fair. Why didn't the King come? He was already...
...publications once chifly with in barren intellectualism have hastened to clamber aboard the bandwagon of Literature for the Many. A mild miracle has taken place, for with incentives quite mercenary the editors have done a literary good turn...
...platform, paraded off into the dingy passage. Soon a train nosed around the curve, gathered speed, screamed toward Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter, ground brakes, shivered, stopped. Passengers, lifting themselves from the floor where the abrupt halt had put them, watched Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter clamber aboard, smiling mildly with surprise...