Word: elbow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harvested. Across the way corn stood four feet high. The inland meadows were dotted with piles of new hay. The cows looked fatter and sleeker than ever. These good sights came under the critical eye of Squire Franklin D. Roosevelt last week when he returned to his native Krum Elbow for the first time since that dark February day he left for Washington to assume the Presidency. "Fine! Perfectly fine," he said half to himself as he drove up & down the dirt roads and appraised the 1,000 acres of fields and woodland bordering the Hudson River. Nature had dealt...
...After breakfast next morning the special came to a leisurely stop at Hyde Park. The President descended a gangplank from the observation platform. Around him were hundreds of old friends and neighbors whom he saluted as "Tom" and "Joe" and '"Harry." A car sped him to Krum Elbow, the estate of his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who was on hand to greet her son. The Vincent Astors dropped in for luncheon and in the afternoon the President went swimming in his outdoor pool. Determined to be a country squire taking his ease, for the week-end at least...
...before the village church at Coggia. A cross dangled on his chest, a crude crown of twigs sat on his tangled hair. Hoarse with a stale fear, he shouted. "What have I done?" A peasant saw that it was Andre Spada, alone and half-witted. Peasants tugged at his elbow to make him rise and hide from the police. Spada pushed them away, rose and wandered about in a daze, jabbering to himself until gendarmes took him away...
...narrowed to a struggle between Hearst's Lawyer Konta and George E. Hamilton Jr., lawyer for an unnamed principal. Hearst's lively Editrix Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson of the Washington Herald, with which the Post would be merged if Hearst bought it, stood at Lawyer Konta's elbow, egging him on. Lawyer Konta...
...college and teammate Charles B. Parsons-needed was a fifth place in the six-man race. The runners crouched at the start. The field spread going away from the mark and drove into the straightaway with Howard Jones of Penn ahead and Robert Kane of Cornell at his elbow. They were placed in the same order at the finish, with Parsons close behind for the third place that gave U. S. C. two more points than it needed for the championship-45 to Stanford's 42. Yale, Cornell and N. Y. U. tied for third with 16 points apiece...