Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person, and his eyes begin to sparkle. He smokes a great many de-nicotinized cigarets down to ragged little stubs. In his enthusiasm he lunches in his laboratory on sandwiches, coffee and condensed cream, perhaps with the bloody carcass of a rat in the sink at his elbow and surrounded by jars of pickled pigeon specimens. He used to play golf but has given it up, used to be a bachelor, but gave that up also almost at the age of 60, when he married...
...steals around Her shoulder, and Her head comes to rest easily in the crook of his elbow. Mutual contentment. The mad, festive roar of those thousands at dances is now a thing apart; far below the city appears calmly dignified. From the west a tiny train slithers into the station behind its headlight, and the green eye of a signal turns to red. Then, carrying over the show-silence, comes the faint but insistent tinkle of a church bell which tolls and tolls. The Eve has become...
...poorly-clad men jogged the elbow of a New York Times Berlin correspondent and whispered: "The German people do not approve of such treatment of the Jews." Bad Neighbor Policy. The harsh, explosive epithets in which the German language is rich, were heaped, together with obscenities, upon Jewish men, women and children in every part of the Reich...
...morning last week in Orangeburg, N. Y.'s huge Rockland State Hospital, 23 of its 4,700 patients stood fidgeting in line, with sleeves rolled up to their elbows waiting for their weekly injections of neoarsphenamine. Nurse Catherine Irvine handed Dr. Samuel Louis Leffel a syringe of bright yellow fluid, and he jabbed the needle into the prominent elbow vein of the Negro standing before him. Then he moved down the line, gave injections to the next four patients. As he poised a needle above the sixth arm, the Negro fell to the floor in convulsions. Just...
...Krum Elbow Blues (Johnny Hodges, Vocalion). The Ellington band, under another name as hot, dedicates one to President Roosevelt's new dusky neighbors...