Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper and saying "Thank you," and smiling sweetly on the varied specimens of womanhood which clamored and pushed before him. The next moment his manager came to his rescue and whisked him upstairs to his dressing room. The manager explained to the reporter that Buddy had to make a dash from the theatre to the broadcasting station, return to the theatre for his next appearance, and then take his next time off for supper, returning immediately for another performance...
Scotch. Rye and Bourbon are the chief whiskies of North America. Bourbon starts with corn and a dash of small grains. Irish starts with barley but particular Irishmen always drink Scotch. Scotch also starts with barley but the ingredients are better, notably its water. And Scotch is the chief whiskey of all the rest of the world...
...Pulitzer Prize novel (Laughing Boy) was laid in the U. S. Southwest; Sparks Fly Upward took Central America for its scene; in Long Pennant he follows the fortunes of Rhode Island privateers of 1812 coming home from a long cruise. Readers who like their melodrama with a dash of historicity, a seasoning of salty nautical gab, should enjoy Author La Farge's latest. The armed brig Glimpse, Jonas Dodge, Master, was three years out of Chog's Cove, R. I. She had had some close escapes from British cruisers; her crew had a fat share of prize money...
...Junior Varsity eleven overcame the Freshmen 13-6, in their annual game yesterday. With the 1937 eleven out-rushing them, the Jayvees turned to the air and scored two touchdowns on passes. George W. Blackwood saved the first-year men from a shut-out by a 50-yard dash with two minutes to play...
...Inosuke Sakue, fastened to themselves a firing bomb three metres long and jumped into the wire entanglements. The bomb exploded with a loud detonation, smashing the three heroes and the barbed wire to pieces. These heroes died a desperate death, opening a way for the infantrymen to make a dash, which eventually resulted in the occupation of the enemy's camp. Their heroism makes even demons...