Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several distinct castes. Aris- tocrats painted and tattooed themselves, wore few clothes, as many precious ornaments as they could. The women supported their breasts on a pair of golden bars which were carried by thongs over the shoulders. For protection the fighters had golden helmets, golden elbow-length cuffs, golden greaves. For arms they had clubs, spears, arrows and darts which in the air made a whistling noise. The chiefs and nobles were polygamous. They ate with their fingers but used finger-bowls. A dead chief was either mummified by fire or buried with his wives and retainers, who prepared...
...gradually become the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. When Commissar Maxim Litvinoff arrived last November in the U. S., Correspondent Duranty arrived with him. When Ambassador William C. Bullitt made his first official visit to the U. S. S. R. last December, Duranty was at his elbow. If any one man could be said to have reconciled Capitalist U. S. and Communist Russia, Duranty is the man. Critics have accused him of being no newshawk but a dove of peace who from long association with Soviet eagles has become their carrier pigeon. But unbiased readers of Duranty Reports...
...fugitives from the hard world to the sweetness of academic society, that is to say dilettantes, for whom the policy of the University has been growing more adverse for some years past. Another kind is the student whose scarcity of imagination is compensated for by plenitude of elbow grease, who may fairly be recognized as a clerk rather than a scholar. These are those who in Mr. Chase's words have "filled Widener with their petty lucubrations upon dead themes." There is no disagreement about them...
...still has his interest in one of Manhattan's big banking houses. But for several months his active interest has been the NRA which he has served as New York State NRAdministrator. Last week he got an NRA promotion, moved right up to General Johnson's elbow...
...General Johnson's elbow Mr. Harriman met an old acquaintance: his sister, Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, passionate New Dealer, who at the instance of her good friend Madam Secretary Perkins, enjoys the chairmanship of NRA's consumers' advisory board, and has become a favorite with the General. Sister Mary founded the Junior League at the turn of the Century and later sought an outlet for her restlessness in such unrelated fields as running a smalltown newspaper for a while, horse-and cattle-breeding on her Virginia estate and sponsoring the co-operative movement among U. S. farmers...