Word: drag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Anthony Rousch Mills, 77, potent westerner; at Sundance, Wyo. "Thirty years back," Mills, climbing a trail in the Black Hills, encountered a grizzly. The bear lunged; bumped the shot gun over a ravine; bit off Mills's nose; seized him by the leg and started to drag him over the rocks. The hardy Mills stopped the flight by catching at a tree. Pulling his knife, he turned over and cut the bear's jugular vein...
...scatteringly surveyed this season by the more earnest theatre followers. Save the irreverent and eminently amusing Taming of the Shrew in modern clothes there has been no long run of the Bard's shows. Therefore, George Arliss was strategically situated to seize serious theatregoers by the ears and drag them toward his Shylock. He may still do so. No one can plot the perversities of theatregoers. Yet it was the feeling of many authorities that his Shylock was indifferent...
...Roman Pontiff a certain priority but they claim it is derived, not from divine right, but from the opinion of the majority of the faithful. They declare themselves ready to negotiate with the Roman Church . . . on a basis of equality. . . . How could she tolerate an iniquitous attempt to drag the truth?divinely revealed truth?into a compromise? . . . If we admit this possibility, we must also say that the descent of the Holy Ghost on the apostles, that the permanence of the Holy Ghost in the Church, and even the teaching of Jesus Christ, lost all influence in the world many...
...furious convicts turned their attention to Guard Charles Gorhanson, who was trying to drag out the dying Singleton. Pricking his back with their knives, they made Gorhanson buzz to the switchboard guard the signal for opening the cellhouse. Guard Gorhanson buzzed long and angrily. The switchboard man guessed something was wrong and slammed the door shut...
...Motor Co., conservatives, reported that a life-size model will be built. The plane will have three, perhaps four, horizontal revolving wings. Its estimated rising speed will be 1,900 ft. per minute; forward speed, achieved by tilting 50 to 70 m.p.h. Dropping with motors dead, the revolving wings drag heavily; elminate landing crashes. Also eliminated are long landing fields. Mail officials were deeply interested, pointing out that the invention if practicable, could drop directly on post-office building roofs. The inventor is Maitland B. Bleecker...