Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other new rules prohibit "diving" tackles, flying wedge formation on the kickoff, substitutions except for injury unless time-out has been called for some other reason, hard knee or elbow pads, "striking" with the hand or forearm by defense linesmen. They are the most extensive changes in football rules since 1906. By last week many U. S. colleges had tried them out in warm-up games...
...hardboiled, almost unmoral" Morgan Shepard. Sometimes he will dash to a nearby hospital to amuse bedridden children. His favorite device for 30 years has been the "Quizz-wizz." He thrusts a pencil into a child's hand, holds a pad of paper under it, jiggles the child's elbow. Then he sketches lines around the meaningless scrawl, telling a story as he goes, finally completing a drawing of a grotesque animal...
...natural check on the plausibility of Unashamed (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). It is based on a sensational socialite murder case in Philadelphia (TIME, Nov. 23). Edward Allen was acquitted because the jurors felt that a hole in Francis A. Donaldson Ill's side and none in his elbow indicated that he had had his arm raised to strike, hence had been shot in self-defense, and not solely to avenge the honor of Rose Allen. Unashamed omits this angle, justifies the girl and her brother, gives the dead man a bad name but in general keeps the faith with Philadelphia...
...entered only through a 4-ft. passageway which cuts through a 9-ft. steel cylinder, a turn of which can shut it off. Outer wall below the street is 8½ ft. of steel and concrete. Throughout the building upstairs are secret alarms, turned on by gentle knee or elbow pressure. These are sometimes rung in error, sending 100 ex-Marine guards to the spot on the run with guns ready. Deputy Governor W. Randolph Burgess rang a false alarm by mistake the first day he arrived. Communication is maintained with Governors Island, 15 min. away, where ten companies...
...Mr.Speaker," asked a voice at his elbow, "you've gone toRoosevelt...