Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fitting conclusion. Here is Miss Sears' eulogy of the slain Indian Metacom (King Philip): "Metacom--mighty warrior!--mighty patriot!--they could speak sneeringly of him now that he was lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece of clay! . . . . Where was that 'Great Cause' now? Right before them, sunk in the mud, so they would have answered. But how little they knew!" After all, how could they have known that Miss Sears...
...goes astray. A swiler must be light on his feet, for a seal can lollop over the ice as fast as a man can run. A good swiler can skin a seal in 40 to 60 seconds, and may take as many as 120 sculps per day. He may drag his sculps back to the ship at the day's end, or may pile them on an ice pan to be picked up later...
...must give the makers of "Looking for Trouble" credit for originality, at least. To build a movie around the institution of telephone trouble shooting, to drag in a couple of sweet love affairs, a murder, no end of fist-fights, and much mad dashing about, is fairly usual; but to wind it all up by shooting a gun which starts an earthquake which hits the lady villain on the head with a multitude of bricks and induces her to confess her sins, thereby saving the lives of all the nice people, is a stroke of sheer genius. Besides that, Jack...
...claim, all the connections or descendants of famed characters in all the historical pictures, which are currently the cinema's most profitable fashion, might sue for damages. But the Rothschild descendants who are today one of Europe's most potent banking families are not likely to drag Producer Zanuck into court. Although the picture treats the founder of the dynasty harshly and makes Nathan a sentimental parvenu, its general temper is complimentary and its continuity closer to fact than most efforts of its kind...
...more than six beavers during the season. No beaver may be dug or smoked from his lodge, or shot except when found alive in a trap. But the wise trapper, setting his trap a little back from the water's edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling captive to quick death by drowning. Otherwise he is apt to find only a torn leg in his trap. Sensitive trappers, if they can afford it, use the Bailey live beaver trap, a hinged, circular device which lies flat, snaps closed when a beaver touches its trigger...