Word: crawls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five thousand eager Yorkshire women sought to crawl into a small theatre, at Bradford last week, to view an instructive sex film entitled The Dangers of Innocence...
...Irishman drank farewell toasts with his brothers of the Saorstat Corps. Said he: "Ten-thirty is my bedtime and I refuse to crawl in earlier just because there's a little job of flying over the Atlantic to be done tomorrow." It was midnight when he finally retired, in the room next to that of his eight-year-old daughter Pat, who, he said, "doesn't give a hump about all this flying." The Germans, strange figures in Ireland, plodded back to their quarters, the Baron to play a final game of solitaire, the phlegmatic Captain to make...
...will sympathize with the unfortunate inhabitants of the Yard and Business School dormitories from whom the chill breezes of Cambridge winter have elicited a chorus of complaint and protest. It is, indeed, a sad state of affairs when the heating management makes it necessary for the cloistered Senior to crawl between icy sheets after burning the mid-night oil. And it is hardly to be expected that future business magnates of the nation can survive the ordeal of climbing out from between warm blankets and dressing in the unfriendly atmosphere of refrigerator-like cubicles. No one will deny that...
...They'll take you out and they'll lower you down, While men with shovels stand all around; They'll throw in dirt and they'll threw in rocks, And they won't give a damn if they break the box. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out, They crawl all over your chin and mouth, They invite their friends and their friends' friends too And you look like hell when they're -through-with you. There are long narrative songs...
Every man be he Dr. Straton or Joe Forecast should, when he has made a statement, be willing to stand by it, and not wish to crawl out of it like a dastard. If Dr. Straton desires publicity, his is a good method of obtaining it. If, however, he wishes to see articles reporting his speeches written in a tone complimentary to him, let him think out what he's going to say before he says it, and not talk for a half hour extempore at the conclusion of his main address...