Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade for a clerk is bird-painting. A man must be patient, curious, hardy, sharp-eyed, indomitable beyond belief. He must lie immobile in brambles half the years of his life, or crouch in duck boats, shin up tall trees, wiggle all day through burdock. Thus he may discover the true expressions of contentment, fear, anger or mischief never seen in a stuffed bird. He may discover the true color of a bird's bill and feet, which fade quickly after death. He may discover such secrets as that the caracara of the Southwest has a reddish eye normally...
Battalino advanced as usual at the bell, his flat face screwed up ready for pain. He walked in at a crouch close to Petrolle with his hands up beside his ears, then suddenly cut loose with both hands, wide open. Coldly, Petrolle stabbed him with trip-hammer rights, straight lefts, and backed away. Crouching again, Battalino sprang after him, savagely knocked Petrolle down with another torrent of blows. Petrolle is one of the ring's sagest fighters. He knelt till the count of nine, stalled for more time by wiping the resin off his gloves on the referee...
Employing the crouch start exclusively, as well as a flying wedge for running interference, the Plympton Street team wrestled its way around the dusty bases in one frantic inning after another. It was finally necessary for the Lampoon players to purloin one of the bases in order to end the game with a triple...
...sanity. The simple burlesque business that Mr. Clark knows best consists chiefly in manhandling a cigar, shooting people with a trick cane equipped with a rubber-tube to blow smoke through, ogling all pretty girls through spectacles painted on his face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this Mr. Clark has done many times before with success. Bad press notices and the lack of any outstand ing talent other than Clark & McCullough put Here Goes the Bride into the past tense. But you will still hear dance bands playing some of the show's earful...
Judge Leonard Callender Crouch, Syracuse . . . LL.D...