Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such lashing words must have cut deeper than pain; but suddenly their sting was soothed, as the great, soup-plate-like medal arrived and was placed in the trembly hands of General Umberto Nobile. Immediately his careworn features relaxed, and he seemed to bask at length in Peace...
...Einstein limousine purred down Prague's hill, many a non-Semite looked with envious eye. Well known is the fact that the U.S. Minister's rich father (wool) cut him off with $125,000 when he married his present spouse, because she had been twice before a wife. But later a rich sister placed at Son Einstein's disposal for life an income of $20,000 per year. In the opinion of William Jennings Bryan the present Mrs. Einstein became a distinct adornment to the diplomatic personnel, and deserved all praise for remaining in Constantinople with...
...were the object of a penetrating glance from a young woman standing on the steps of the New York Public Library. Having glanced, she probably made a mark in the notebook she held in her hand. She may have noted the color of your stockings, the cut of your suit, the length of your skirt, the shape of your hat. You had become a statistic...
...product, a Busy Man. To save time for him something new in farm magazines has been invented. Monthly at Rochester, N. Y., there used to be published Rural Life & Farm Stock Journal. In its place there now is published The Rural Digest, a 32-pager, conceived, conscribed, composed and cut after the fashion of TIME, the Newsmagazine. The object: to boil down to terse paragraphs of restatement or selective quotation every 30 days, all the agricultural news a high-grade farmer ought to know...
...Metre Run. Won by Ray Barbuti of the U. S. 47 4/5 sec. Before the race he drank a cherry eggnog. At the finish he dived into the tape, sprawled upon the cinder track, was severely cut. But that was the way in which he conquered James Ball of Canada by an eyelash...