Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shell around a mark in a race. Eakins' particular passion was having his models pose in exactly the same attitude from day to day. He used to make them stand against a background marked out with squared lines with colored ribbons attached at the exact point where head, elbow, knee, etc. were supposed to be. Prizefights were his passion. In 1886 he shocked all Philadelphia and got himself fired as instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy when he asked a young lady art student to take off her clothes and substitute for a professional model who failed to turn...
...statue's hat brim, moved inside the head & shoulders for greater comfort. Seeing the old man busily occupied astride William Penn's armpit, Artist Shinn asked what he was doing. "Writing a letter to posterity," the friend replied, and promptly fell down into the Penn elbow. With some difficulty Artist Shinn extricated...
...great auditorium of the 817,500,000 palace which Herbert Hoover built for his Department of Commerce was jammed to the doors one day last week. Elbow to elbow sat 2,000 businessmen eager to say their say about whether NRA should permit or forbid price fixing and price control. On the platform presiding over the meeting were Samuel Clay Williams, Chairman of NIRB; Arthur Dare Whiteside and Sidney Hillman, both NIRB members, and their associates...
...absolute secrecy before he was handed a copy of the President's budget message, a copy of the 900-page budget. Then the correspondents hurried up the street to the White House Offices, were received by the President with Secretary Morgenthau and Budget Director Bell, one at each elbow. For an hour the newshawks were allowed to ask all the foolish questions they could think of, given official explanations. Thus, when the message was published 48 hours later, was the Press well primed by the White House to give just the interpretation the President desired. Then with everything ready...
...Captain Hates The Sea," makes us wonder how we ever withstood the lewd sallies of Will Housen movies. Leon Errol, Alison Skipworth, Helen Vinson, Victor McLaglen, and John Gilbert make up an able cast. The captain's uncanny urge to dip beards into soup by pushing the elbows that support them adds a tenseness which is truly genuine. The head steward aware of this weakness forces a passenger to sit next to the captain who provides him with the beard-elbow-soup combination which he is unable to resist. John Gilbert, an inebriate in love with a girl back...