Word: curl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madeira, two winters ago. There the dancing master who taught Mr. Shaw to tango has on display his photograph with the smug inscription: "To the only man who could teach me anything. (Signed) G. B. S." Strolling in to dinner Lord Birkenhead examined the photograph, allowed his lip to curl at the Irish red-head's boast. Drawing his pen he wrote below the Shavian autograph, "Could Birkenhead teach you no law?" then added, "Do let us have a little less of your perfection, My Dear...
...grave critics would ponder. They are puzzled by his laughing acceptance of derogatory criticism, recall his wife's remark: "You may say what you like about his music, but if you don't praise his handwriting he will be cross with you." Many of these people curl the lip, reflect with Hugo Riesmann: "His last works only too clearly reveal his determination to make a sensation at all costs...
...thus covering completely the whole area while the submarine is crossing it. It does not matter what depth the submarine is running the paravane is beneath it, the wire (which has electrical wires in its centre) crossing the hull of the submarine has a tendency to make the paravane curl under it, puts an extra strain on the winch of the towing destroyer, thus releasing a dynamometer switch and blowing up the paravane which is filled with lyddite. The cost of these explosive paravanes is, including the winch and apparatus, almost as high as that of a torpedo. Once paravane...
Henri Marcel, waveman: "This month I celebrate, at my estate in the department of Eure, my 74th birthday. Paris papers told how, at 12, I was a stonemason, how I learned" the barber trade because chiseling tired me, how I shaved for two francs and curled for three until one day, in my shop in a slum, a demirep said to me: 'Make my hair curl like the locks extraordinary of your mother.' I was at that time supporting my good maman; her hair was famous in the neighborhood, beautiful auburn hair that nature had twined round...
...Cabinet's "decree session" was intended as a protest. The Holy See, whose advisors are long headed and far sighted, reputedly doubts the ultimate wisdom of curbing and driving Italians along the hard road mapped by II Duce. Mussolini. The Premier's lips were observed to curl silently last week when news gatherers asked him for a statement concerning the new decree virtually suppressing all individuality in the Italian press. Well might Signor Mussolini sneer. When attempts were made by the pre-Fascist regime to curb his reckless individualism as editor of II Popolo d'ltalia...