Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Genn did say that the Key Society should be financially independent of the Student Council, but he did not say, as your reporter quotes him, that the Council would otherwise have "domination bof all Key activities." The not-sosly dig at the Council, with which your imaginative reporter credits Genn, implies a conflict between the Key and the Council which does not exist...
...scarcely a break in her marathon monologue, Tallulah had danced the Charleston for them, played piano, told jokes, done imitations and a few ballet turns, tossed off some mint juleps, fed them shrimp and mushrooms and showed them the house. She had discussed her artesian well ("We had to dig 260 feet, and we finally hit 25 gallons a minute"), her health ("I have the arteries of a girl of 16"), her finances ("I haven't bought a mink coat since 1934, for god's sake"), how she hates the theater ("I'd rather play cards...
...sorts of ancient monsters are jumbled together there. One is a horned reptile 36 feet long, which took 20 days to dig up. Another is a 98-foot creature that walked on its hind legs...
...mostly, their heads are filled with the heroes that grew as the nation grew. "It's more fun than arithmetic," said one eighth-grader. "I wish we had a blue ox like Babe out on my dad's ranch. I'll bet she'd dig him a stock pond just like she dug Lake Michigan...
...most important part of our press structure. I think that a good deal of our press reporting has strictly gone to hell; there is too much thumbsucking, too little pavement-pounding . . . From now on, Indiana is neither G.O.P. nor Democratic to me. I know I'll have to dig to find out. It has been a wonderful lesson to those newspapermen who still have enough sense left to know that they got a lesson the hard way, and that they'd better brush up again on the fundamentals...