Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lectures in English 52 is indeed admirable. A few other instructors have realized advantages of such a method, but the great majority of lecturers in academic courses still insist on reviewing the facts of the course at each meeting. These men would do well to take their cue from Professor Greenough and replace stagnant repetition of facts with enlightening commentary on background and personalities...
...hollow voice was only a shell of what it used to be. Chim-Fen's sinister shadow filled the stage while he crept up on the child he wanted to kidnap, buried a hatchet in the neck of the man who found him out. When his own sleek cue was finally twisted around his neck, his murderer bolstered him against a lamp post, talked to him casually until a policeman approached on his rounds. The policeman passed. The body fell to the ground with a gruesome, final thud...
...might have broken a cluster to put Ponzi out of position instead of trying to run out the game. Son of a Greek pool parlor proprietor, Caras learned to play when he was 7 and so small he had to stand on a soapbox. He uses a 20-oz. cue, opens his mouth ferociously when making a run, takes no exercise for fear of becoming muscle bound, supports nine members of his family on his winnings...
...Chautemps, taking his cue from his friend Herriot, went about Paris insisting that France must pay, tried to form a Cabinet on that basis. He raised such hopes in Washington that Congressional leaders were persuaded by the State Department to hurl no speeches at France which might make the Premier-designate's task more difficult. With an effort Congressmen & Senators bottled their spleen. Thus aided M. Chautemps proceeded to?fail. He found plenty of French Deputies rueful over what they had done but no majority ready...
...Russian is also its greatest living theorist. As the author of "the theory of permanent revolution," Comrade Trotsky holds that the lower classes are at all times revolting against the upper classes. Naturally Danish Deputies of the Right and Centre took Prince Aage's letter as their cue to heap torrents of abuse on Denmark's bearded Socialist Premier Thorvald Stauning. Premier Stauning retorted...