Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gown and lace mantilla, the Mayor was received by Pope Pius XI at Rome. The Mayor soon emerged from his private audience and said to reporters: "The Holy Father put me at my ease at once. He treated me as if he were my father indeed. He rested his elbow on the large table between us and spoke to me in soft paternal tones. So I rested my elbow on the table also and answered without fear or re-straint." The truth of the Mayor's description became more and more obvious as bits of the conversation were related...
Sirs: The following are extracts from newspaper accounts of the golf classic played at the Oakmont Country Club course this week. . . . "As Armour was about to drive, a woman spectator started one of those noisy motion picture cameras buzzing at his elbow. Tommy stopped his swing at the top . . . asked the woman to observe golfing etiquette . . . but the damage had been done. . . ." "Emmet French put off his funeral until the 15th hole . . . just as he was about to approach, one of those diabolical movie cameras in the hands of some female started to reel . . . his spirit was broken. . . ." Perhaps...
Died. James ("Jimmy") Delaney,* 25, light heavyweight boxer; of blood poisoning resulting from a fight with Maxie Rosenbloom, in which a bone in his left elbow was splintered; in Minneapolis. "Jimmy" took part in 67 major bouts, won 29 including 19 knockouts, lost 9; 29 had no decision...
...from exposure, broken leg and bloodpoisoning. When he regained speech he told how the Grey Ghost had broken its mooring, leaving him on San Clemente beach. He had tried to scale a cliff, but had fallen into a cactus pit. Rescuers found him, a moaning skeleton propped on its elbow, after eight days...
FINDING THE WORTH WHILE IN THE ORIENT-Lucian Swift Kirtland-McBride ($3.50). World travel, which means "The Orient" to most people, is becoming so common that a book of this sort at one's elbow is apt to be disastrously intriguing to all who should stay at home. It costs, says Author Kirtland, just about $15 in gold for every day you are on shore in the Orient. For a decent world-circling tour on your own, you need $3,000-just about what it costs, with "extras," on the round-the-world travel agency tours. With this fair...