Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lavish, genial was the luncheon next day in Karin Hall, elaborate hunting lodge of the Reich's Master of the Hunt, Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring, the No. 2 Nazi. Before leaving Germany for Poland, former President Hoover took what seemed like a long-range dig at President Roosevelt. "Most of the nations I have visited," reported Herbert Hoover, "have done more in public health and housing for the lower-income groups than we have in America...
...looked like an arriving movie actress. A year later, Bette's contract was not renewed and she was ready to leave town. But George Arliss, about to make The Man Who Played God for Warner Brothers, wanted a dignified young actress with whom it might not seem infra dig for him to fall in love...
Also, if Frank Coleman can dig himself a second or third in the metric mile, if Harvard can beat Michigan's dazzling free relay team, and if some more "if's" come true, Captain Hutter and his mates may conclude Harvard's best season with a national championship...
...veneers for furniture are made result from a tree disease somewhat similar to boils. Nobody knows what causes burls, as nobody knows what causes cancer. They form most often underground where the roots join the tree. Burl diggers notice a slight swelling of the trunk at the ground level, dig down, chop off the roots and lift out the burl. The surgery required for burls above ground is more simple; they are just sawed...
While Washington observers saw in the Vinson appointment a Roosevelt gesture to the House less likely to backfire than the appointment of Senator Hugo Black to the Supreme Court, courtly Chairman Henry Fountain Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee could not resist a sly dig as his committee received the appointments for confirmation. Indicating to newshawks that he might have to hold on them the extensive public hearings which Nominee Black did not get, Senator Ashurst put his old tongue in his cheek, observed: "You may say that the Judiciary Committee will proceed with exasperating slowness as has been...