Word: elbow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing homage in this small Thuringian city. Here in 1919 the Constitution of the present German Republic was adopted. And in Weimar 100 years ago last week died Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Not only a poet, this lusty, lyric German philosopher was also a resourceful statesman, ever at the elbow of Weimar's reigning Grand Duke...
...fading autumn sunshine. A young Frenchman mounted the steps of a house in a Paris suburb and touched the knocker. His dress was one of conscious affectation, that of a dandy of the Restoration; he was eighteen years old, and his elbow was crooked around a thin manuscript. A kindly neighbor in his country home had secured for him an invitation to meet Saint-Beuve, the great literary critic, and read some poetry to him. Saint-Beuve's library was soon vibrating to the warm emotional tone with which a young man reads poetry, particularly when the poetry happens...
...director of the War Finance Corp. after which R. F. C. is patterned almost item for item, he evolved and put to use his economic theory in the 1921 slump. He knows to a nicety how many millions or billions of dollars one needs at one's elbow to annihilate this or that bugaboo of deflation. It may not be necessary or practical to use them all but psychologically their very handiness makes them effective...
...Gannett proceeded to his Miami Beach home before he discovered he had three broken ribs. British States man Winston Churchill, struck by an automobile in Manhattan last month, ex tended his convalescent visit at Nassau. because his recovery was so slow that he could not raise his arms above elbow-height...
...gossip sheet. Return of the money customarily was not made or expected, but the pompous colonel had a peculiar means of repayment at his command each Tuesday night when the magazine was being made up. On those nights he presided noisily over the editorial rooms, his lawyer at his elbow, reading and initialing proofs of every item which had been set in type for that issue. Now and then he would snort angrily at the "injustice" of some barbed paragraph, turn an infuriate glare upon his quaking underlings and announce that the story could not be true! For years...