Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than anyone in her shop. Although she is reputed to be the daughter of a Monte Carlo cocotte, her contemporaries speak of her with awe and respect, consider her the dressmaker's dressmaker. She achieves a classic elegance of line at the expense of color. To make her gowns cling to the figure she cuts her materials on the bias. A couturier for nearly 40 years, she designs her models on a famed wooden doll...
Lawrence was not the only British officer working among the Arabs. For his colleagues he wrote a paper of good advice on The Art of Handling Arabs. Some of his "27 Articles": "Cling tight to your sense of humour. . . . They make no special allowances for you when you dress like them. You will be like an actor in a foreign theatre, playing a part day and night for months, without rest, and for an anxious stake. . . . Do not think from their conduct that they are careless [about religion]. Their conviction of the truth of their faith, and its share...
...ropes for a second. In the tenth, he made the mistake of courteously touching gloves, as if it were the last round. At the end of the 14th, Loughran was dazed enough to start for the wrong corner of the ring. During the next round, Loughran managed to cling groggily to his huge adversary until the bell ended the fight. Three judges gave Camera a unanimous decision...
Even today almost every San Francisco businessman has his favorite among the penny shares of the Mining Exchange. Located at No. 327 Bush Street, it is one of the few U. S. exchanges that still cling to the old custom of calling off the full stock list 'at the opening of each daily session. After that, trading in the usual manner begins. There are no posts on the floor, each broker having his booth against the wall. All sessions are open to the public and only a low railing divides the visitors' gallery from the trading floor...
...rise of dictatorship and have found a refuge in American universities and colleges. This will confirm the opinion long held in wide circles that our colleges are only stagnant back-waters in the rapid flow of modern life, dedicated as ever to obsolete faiths and lost causes. They cling, for instance, to the outworn notion of liberty and give shelter to thinkers and scholars whom the iron broom of Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler has swept out of their native lands. New York Times...