Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Balsam styled the inclusion of this four year old incident in the charges as Macchiavellian; and stated that to drag the associations of Armistice Day into a prison investigation was a sorry trick...
...fire to the plane and get back to the oasis under cover of the smoke. Sanders (Boris Karloff) goes mad and gets his bullet when he is stumbling across the sand with his clothes torn like a prophet's, carrying a cross. Morelli is killed trying to drag him back to safety. The sergeant has the machine gun and when the Arabs, veiled like ghosts, at last dare to come creeping over a ridge of sand toward the oasis, he sits up in the grave he has dug for himself, rakes them all down. He is chuckling at their...
Frankfurter's much-touted but withal mysterious influence with the Roosevelt Administration has been of the same indirect sort as his influence on the law. While other professors have snatched eagerly at the opportunity to occupy prominent posts in the government. Frankfurter has consistently resisted efforts to drag him into the limelight. If rumor be true, he turned down the Attorney-Generalship. In any case he was offered and declined the post of Solicitor General and several other legal offices connected with the new administrative agencies in Washington, positions whose incumbents regularly take the spotlight from cabinet members...
Riding in a drag hunt near her estate at Aiken, S. C. was U. S. polo's gallant, white-haired Matriarch Louise Eustis Hitchcock, 68, mother of "Tommy" Hitchcock Jr., longtime No. i U. S. poloist, aunt of George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, No. 1 U. S. steeplechaser. Hot on the trail of her baying beagles. Matriarch Hitchcock urged her mount to a stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right...
...rationalize a device that was born a generation ago as a buggy with an engine under it. Later the engine was put in front to substitute for the horse. Thus the automobile gradually acquired a shape that was just the reverse of that most efficient for overcoming air drag-low in front and high behind instead of high in front, tapering behind. The new De Soto is an approach to the sweeping curve of a tear drop. Its front mounds up in a smooth curve over the engine, with headlights and other gadgets embedded in its solid structure. The hump...