Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elbow-grease, gaiety, cunning...
...pigtailed slavey to a wealthy, highly temperamental, badly spoiled but charming intimate of all the Victorian bigwigs including the seventh Edward, his cousin Wilhelm and even some Boston Cabots-that is a story made more remarkable by the absence of any evidence that Rosa operated sub rosa. By sheer elbow-grease, gaiety and culinary cunning, she became, she says, and remains, the outstanding cook of her time...
...imagine Horace Greeley's snort or Charles Dana's explosion had the printer's devil come to their elbow suggesting that there was too much copy to fill their papers, that their editorials had best be cast out. They would have shouted: "Throw away the rest and save the editorials!" They were journalists conducting great journals. Today, we have newspapers run by newspapermen...
...lunatic fringe' that used to orate there. Nearly 100 cats live free wild lives at the base of Trajan's Column, Rome. The clerk at the Grand Hotel, Paris, can hold a telephone in each hand and turn the pages of his ledger with his elbow. King George quotes Cromwell; his grandmother drove around a block in Manchester to avoid passing Cromwell's statue...
...want of elbow-room ever felt, till we moved out of Holden into ten or fifteen spacious lecture-rooms and recitation-rooms in the other college halls, in which we have suffered greatly for want of accommodation ever since. I really think the name of 'Holden' must have something to do with its capacity for holding every body and everything...