Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Quakers, cellar occupants in the League last year, are much improved and are certain to climb out of the doldrums this year with colorful, cocky, and competent pitcher Frank Reagan leading...
...other night at a Count Basic dance, a rather merry young lady in black skunk furs, proceeded to climb onto the band stand, push tenor man Bud Tate out of his chair, sit down and clap her hands while cooing benevolently upon the audience. Aside from the fact that the look on Bud's face was funny as hell, a very serious question was brought up. Just what is the average leader going to do about the jitterbug? Benny Goodman recently wrote a long article proving that the jitterbugs caused his band to play as loudly as it does because...
...from its belly on a cable, bore down and passed over the rope between the poles. Out of the Stinson tumbled a bag of Coatesville mail. Neatly, the dangling hook snagged the stretched rope with the mailbag attached (see cut). As the monoplane picked up speed and began to climb the mail clerk in the cabin hauled in the bag by a winch, quickly had it aboard for sorting...
...ride--they're not important. But the canker is even more loathsome than this; for almost every "activities" man is living a lie. He doesn't write for the Record or the News because he likes to, but because he is a crass fame-grabber, because he wishes to climb the well-worn ladder of extra-curricular activities to social success...
...unable to place "all get-out" accurately in time but I should not put it earlier than the covered-wagon period. The folk lore often expressed is probably thus: a wheel comes unstuck and papa has to fix it. "All get out" he calls and the family climb down with patient resignation...