Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boor, who enters a European theatre must tip the usher. At Parisian music halls the ushers, vociferously rampant, will, if not tipped, stand at one's elbow and cry: "Service! Service! SERVICE!" almost indefinitely.* Last week the publicity agent of the Parisian Usher's Association issued an explanatory bit of propaganda: 1) The ushers are not paid to usher. 2) Instead they pay 50 centimes (2?) a night to the management for each seat assigned tp them. 3) Therefore they must figure on a minimum tip of one franc (4?) from each person whom they usher into...
...Pinkerton '27, captain of the University polo team, who fractured his right arm between the elbow and shoulder in the recent encounter with the Yale trio, is resting comfortably at the Phillips House of the Massachusetts General Hospital. He will remain there for two weeks...
...might imagine, from this position of the ring, that few goals were scored. But the ball was never thrown. To be sent through the ring the ball had to be struck with the elbow or wrist, or bounced from...
Penn took its hidden ball trick to Champaign, ILL., where the illustrious Frosty Peters proved that a strong boot is better than patent elbow pads by kicking the goal that won for Illinois in the last period...
...another type, 'elusive charm', 'clashes of beauty', 'sharply silhouetted',--ad nauseam. But what, as Mr. Littel asks, is to be done? One must use words and phrases to "fill in" especially when one has little to say, And these old companions are "so often found at one's elbow when in a hurry or a tight place"; they are words which have niches and occasions rather than meanings". Mr. Littel is right; what would we do without them? They are not the private sins of book reviewers; they are common to persons of less fame. As long...