Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati. Mrs. Margaret L. Pogue, motorist, extended her arm to give a traffic signal. A bale of straw fell from a passing truck, struck her arm, broke it below the elbow...
...manner breathes an inaudible question, stands stiff waiting for an answer, relaxes when it comes, cogitates gently, whispers another query. Says the Judge: "Mr. Steuer, will you speak a little louder?" More whispered queries. The Judge motions the court stenographers to move their table to Mr. Steuer's elbow. At last the Judge himself comes down from the bench and with his hands in his pockets stands near Mr. Steuer...
...Great Britain the Budget is an ancient red leather despatch box which rests on a table in the House of Commons and for most of the year serves as a convenient elbow rest for weary orators. In parliamentary language the British Budget is not "presented" but "opened" once a year. No opening is so well attended, for what the box contains vitally affects the pocket of every inhabitant of Great Britain. For the second time in his career, greying, long-necked Neville Chamberlain opened the Budget last week in a speech that took two hours and left most...
...wide, his eyes half closed in a vigorous grin. He was smoking a cigaret in a long ivory holder. Behind the President stood his three secretaries, Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Marvin Hunter Mclntyre, Stephen Tyree Early. Miss Marguerite Lehand, his personal secretary, sat in the window ledge. Near his elbow sat his stenographer, Grace Tully, with pad & pencil. Another stenographer, Henry Kannee, occupied one end of the desk...
...case Dr. Chaffin, operating in a glass-enclosed cage, wants to say something which does not concern his students, he presses his left elbow to his side. Underneath his operating gown at that side he wears a wide, flat, brass spring, pressure on which disconnects microphone from loudspeaker...